Shine
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Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
November 22, 1996. Shine.The film also takes comfort from the familiar, even fashionable truisms that it finds here: that genius brings suffering, that a child is a parent's passive victim, that adult life is chiefly the aftermath of early…
On the film’s intricate and superbly produced soundtrack, the real-life Helfgott plays the piano for his screen counterparts. Securing the musician’s cooperation was obviously crucial to Jane Scott’s accomplished production, which is also…
November 20, 1996. Ignore the talk comparing Shine to Rain Man, Awakenings and other mental-handicap snifflefests. Shine, based on the true story of the breakdown and recovery of Australian pianist David Helfgott, is scrappy, sexy…
