A coy yet worthy profile of celebrated Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
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06/24/06
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
Top CriticIt'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
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10/15/05
...he often assembles gorgeous, abstract visual montages that recall Godfrey Reggio’s -qatsi trilogy.
09/08/05
A film that succeeds both as biography and poetic travelogue.
10/13/05
They get some amazing sounds from unusual sources... This film is a visual and auditory experience.
11/04/05
Touch the Sound is a completely joyful moviegoing experience and, like the best movies, it takes you to a place you've never been.
12/01/05
It doesn't help when Glennie tries to elucidate her feelings about nature and music in holistic, broad strokes that border on nonsense.
05/07/06
Exquisitely beautiful for the eyes as for the ears.
08/11/05
Fans of the Grammy-winning musician will revel in the proximity to their idol, though second pic from talented helmer Thomas Riedelsheimer plays a tad long to those unfamiliar with his, or her, work.
09/01/05
Top CriticA 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
You'll either sail along with it contentedly, or you'll start to think halfway through that maybe the movie could have been a lot shorter and made its points just as well.
10/30/05
This 'sound journey' (as the subtitle of the film calls it) has much to like and recommend.
10/06/05
We’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
Riedelsheimer succeeds in showing us Glennie's world as she feels it.
09/09/05
An often-lovely impressionistic look at the life of a famous avant-garde percussionist who generates a wonderful world of sound, despite being deaf.
10/14/05
A feast for the senses.
09/09/05
It's a spacious, hauntingly meditative film that thankfully does not dwell on the implications of Glennie's deafness.
09/23/05
It's a contemplative piece of work that will leave you questioning the nature of what is audible -- particularly those parts that 'hearing' people tend to tune out or ignore.
12/02/05
Educates in exhilarating ways, ways that are immediately applicable to how one lives one's life.
09/07/05
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