A hair’s breadth from hagiography, Scott Hicks’s Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts is much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme.
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008)
Genre: New York City, Buddhism
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As fascinating as Glass often is, it's simultaneously too conventional and not conventional enough.
[Director] Hicks, provided with unprecedented access to his subject’s family, friends and collaborators, offers fresh insight into Glass’s insatiable drive and pragmatic cosmology.
Career of modern classical composer revisited by generally reverential retrospective.
A stupefyingly dull portrait of a man who doesn't seem to be lying when he says, "I have so few secrets."
A completely charming piece of work that's as unassuming and winning as the man himself.
A stupefyingly dull portrait of a man who doesn't seem to be lying when he says, "I have so few secrets."
An entertaining pic that will fascinate admirers but is wide-ranging and unpretentious enough to engage those intimidated by Glass' aesthetic.
Glass acts as a tuning fork that calibrates the significance of a compelling 20th century composer who is still going strong into the 21st.
Despite efforts to show the composer's domestic life, including his Buddhist-influenced daily exercise routines, there's no thoughtful discussion of what's behind the serialist music style Glass has brought to worldwide attention.
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