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Touch the Sound (2006)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:16
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Not only does this documentary introduce viewers to Glennie, it gives them a taste of how she perceives the world.
Theatrical Release:Sep 7, 2005 Limited
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
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Top CriticTouch the Sound is remarkable not only because of Glennie's story -- a clinically deaf Grammy-winning musician who has played with the world's great orchestras -- but for the way Riedelsheimer uses sound.
12/08/05
Top CriticThe movie makes an interesting addition to what could become Riedelsheimer's evolving and extraordinary gallery of movies that bring the creative process to life.
12/02/05
Top CriticIt will be frustrating if you expect narrative and linear development. But if you take it on as a new point of view, valuable even if you don't completely comprehend it yet, Touch the Sound is worth the trip.
12/02/05
Top CriticRiedelsheimer gives the viewer not only Glennie's music, but her own experience of it.
11/28/05
Top Critic[T]his is a film that leaves strong reverberations and a pleasant, sense-scrambled high.
11/28/05
Top CriticUnfortunately, a good deal of Touch the Music is devoted to vacuous interviews with Glennie, who seems positively incapable of saying anything substantial.
11/03/05
Top CriticBeautifully 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
Top CriticWe listen to this film more intensely than is usually the case.
10/13/05
Top CriticThere 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
Top CriticA feast for the senses.
09/09/05
Top CriticA potent and imaginative creative biography of virtuoso percussionist Glennie.
09/08/05
Top CriticThis 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
Top CriticEducates in exhilarating ways, ways that are immediately applicable to how one lives one's life.
09/07/05
Top CriticIt's rare that a documentary conveys an artist's worldview so compellingly, but then Glennie is no ordinary musician.
09/06/05
Top CriticFans 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 CriticRewarding, thought-provoking and subtly visceral.
09/01/05
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