Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the audience members of the concert at the Steinway hall (2012, Feb.5th) is actor Mark Ruffalo. He can be seen in at least two shots.
- Quotes
Seymour Bernstein: Life has conflicts and pleasures, harmony and dissonance. That's how life is. Can't escape it. By the way, the same thing occurs in music. There are dissonances in harmony, and resolutions. I believe that you won't enjoy the resolution unless you have that dissonance. What would it be if we didn't have the dissonance? We wouldn't know the meaning of the resolution.
- SoundtracksDrei Klavierstucke, II
written by Franz Schubert
performed by Seymour Bernstein
courtesy of Seeless Productions, Inc. / Manduca Music
The film is filled with wonderful stories like this one: drafted into the army during the Korean War, Seymour finds himself marching for miles tirelessly while his fellow soldiers, seemingly stronger and more fit than he is, faint of exhaustion. He attributes his endurance to his "musician mind set", an explanation, both, unexpected and convincing in the context of the film.
Seymour's every action is motivated by honesty. If there was a stage in his life where he did not feel completely in peace internally, he corrects that eventually, always bringing himself to a state of a perfect inner comfort. There are a few examples of these struggles in the film – the most notable one, of course, is Seymour quitting his successful concert pianist career in favor of teaching.
Very appropriately, the film mimics its subject in its honesty and uncompromising taste. Unfortunately, it also does so in its limited popularity. Call me naive, but I really don't get how a piece of nonsense like Fifty Shades of Grey grows in its media presence with every new bad review it gets, and how a treasure like "Seymour " gets overlooked by 99.9% of cinema goers.
One more thing. The film is a visual and musical feast. From Seymour's shaded solitary apartment in Manhattan, to the breathtakingly beautiful views of Central Park, to the Rotunda of Steinway Hall, to piano pieces by Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven and Bach, there are countless delicacies for the audiences to savor. If the film had no other merits, but cinematography and musical score, it'd be still worth watching.
- vicki_kozel
- Mar 27, 2015
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- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Сеймур: Краткое представление
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $743,541
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $26,587
- Mar 15, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $907,742
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color