A film that succeeds both as biography and poetic travelogue.
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10/13/05
Touch the Sound (2006)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:43
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Not only does this documentary introduce viewers to Glennie, it gives them a taste of how she perceives the world.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In RIVERS AND TIDES, German documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer explored the enchanting and hypnotic "nature" art-installations of Andy Goldsworthy. Now, with TOUCH THE SOUND, he turns his camera on... [More]
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Reviews for Touch the Sound
Beautifully shot and filled with gorgeous music, but one of the most inspiring things about it is the way it erases the idea of Glennie's deafness as a handicap.
10/13/05
We listen to this film more intensely than is usually the case.
10/13/05
Top CriticThis 'sound journey' (as the subtitle of the film calls it) has much to like and recommend.
10/06/05
Like superior tracks on an exhausting double album, the individual moments of wonder in Touch The Sound are too powerful to dismiss.
09/26/05
There is a maddening sense of dislocation through much of the movie -- a feeling that genuinely fascinating questions have been squeezed out by woo-woo philosophizing and material (like Glennie's brief return to the family farm) of only minor import.
09/23/05
It's a spacious, hauntingly meditative film that thankfully does not dwell on the implications of Glennie's deafness.
09/23/05
Glennie and Reidelsheimer prove equally adept at tapping into found sound and transforming it into art.
09/23/05
A nice introduction to an artist mostly unknown to the general public... but one that needs to focus more on its strengths and less on outside influences.
09/09/05
Riedelsheimer succeeds in showing us Glennie's world as she feels it.
09/09/05
A feast for the senses.
09/09/05
Arrestingly beautiful.
09/09/05
Innovative sounds and striking visuals combine to form an exquisite cinematic work that's both a portrait of hearing-impaired percussionist Evelyn Glennie and a radical reexamination of sensory experience.
09/09/05
It's a cliché to find inspiration in other people's disabilities, but the truth is that Glennie would be inspiring whether she could hear or not. Her joyful enthusiasm for life is that great.
09/09/05
A potent and imaginative creative biography of virtuoso percussionist Glennie.
09/08/05
Top CriticWe’re led to experience her life as she does -- as an adventure in which setbacks are not challenges, but illuminations of untracked paths.
09/08/05
...he often assembles gorgeous, abstract visual montages that recall Godfrey Reggio’s -qatsi trilogy.
09/08/05
This impressionistic documentary is a mystical exploration of the sensory world as experienced by a musician who lost most of her hearing as a teenager.
09/07/05
Top CriticCall this a profile in courage.
09/07/05
Educates in exhilarating ways, ways that are immediately applicable to how one lives one's life.
09/07/05
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