Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
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  • Summary: An enigmatic musical poet — and the most documented classical musician of the last century — world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his untimely death. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould humanizes the legend, weavingving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews with Gould’s most intimate friends and lovers — all exploring the incongruities between Gould’s private reality and his wider image.(Lorber Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    91
    It's an inescapable fact that Gould's singular musical insights – the way he brought out in Bach a mesmeric unity of sound – could only have arisen from a singular personality.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    80
    A tour de force of archival research and dogged interviewing, and the portrait it presents is remarkably complete.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    What is most involving about Gould is the extraordinary way he played.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    60
    Gould is as much of a mystery at the end as at the beginning. You get the feeling that's the way he'd have wanted it.

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  1. Lyn
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    For those who've been a little bit in love with the enigmatic Canadian ever since the movie "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould," this is a nice addition. He speaks, he sings, he jokes, he poses, all the action taking place before the backdrop of his amazing musical performances. Most revealing are the interviews (including the "extras") with Cornelia Foss, the artist with whom he shared a passionate relationship for about five years. But the film skims over questions one has about his music -- WHY did he do the Goldberg variations so differently . . . and twice? Was he, or Leonard Bernstein, "right" in their musical dust-up? While appreciating the documentary approach, I sort of missed the whimsical tone of the earlier film. Somehow it expressed the heart of the man in such a lovely way, albeit with fewer facts & figures.… Expand

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