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SEYMOUR: An Introduction<\/strong>
\nSundance Selects<\/strong>
\nReviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade:\u00a0 A-<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Ethan Hawke<\/strong>
\nCast:\u00a0 Seymour Bernstein, Kimball Gallagher, Andrew Harvey, Junko Ichikawa, Michael Kimmelman, Joseph Smith, Ethan Hawke<\/strong>
\nScreened at:\u00a0 Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 2\/22\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 March 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Seymour Bernstein was sent to the front lines in Korea during that awful war in the early 1950s, he asked the officials whether he and a violinist could perform for fellow soldiers.\u00a0 \u201cClassical music?\u201d reported the official.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ll never go for that.\u201d\u00a0 Now, these people had never heard classical music.\u00a0 Long story short, the audience would not let the duo off the stage.\u00a0 Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast, and so Ethan Hawke\u2019s documentary on the amazing career of New Yorker Seymour Bernstein lets us in the theater audience see whether Hawke\u2019s subject knows whereof he speaks when he says that \u201cI never knew that with my hands I could touch the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music is the universal language, the most abstract of the arts and therefore the one that can presumably transcend the petty differences among people.\u00a0 With \u201cSeymour: An Introduction,\u201d one would scarcely be surprised to discover that this gem of a film, one that avoids the usual bane of documentaries, the talking heads, would appeal to lovers of Bach and the Beatles alike, of Beethoven and the Beach Boys and even Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

Ethan Hawke, who appears in the all-too-brief picture now and then talking about a few of his own hangups with stage fright, presents Seymour Bernstein in the most positive light.\u00a0 Bernstein, who gave up a brilliant career as a concert pianist at age fifty to spend his time composing and teaching, began playing at the age of five after begging his mother to get him a piano.\u00a0 The film may arbitrarily be divided into Bernstein as a pianist, Bernstein as a teacher, and Bernstein as a philosopher, even a mystic.\u00a0 We get the impression that instead of suggesting a prescription for a beta-blocker or a valium, he assured Hawke that nervousness was a good thing; that in fact, if a performer were not shaky getting onto the stage, he is not ready to be an actor.\u00a0 \u201cYou will get nervous when you learn how to act,\u201d said Sarah Bernhardt to a pupil.<\/p>\n

Now at the age of eighty-six, he speaks slowly, calmly, without a show of exaggerated emotions, letting the music do the job of elevating us in the audience.\u00a0 He is interviewed in an Upper West Side restaurant by pianist and New York Times writer Michael Kimmelman, but the back-and-forth feels nothing like the deadening palaver that we\u2019re so accustomed to in documentaries.\u00a0 As people wander to and fro outside, Kimmelman and Bernstein are simply having a chat that could have been recorded by a surveillance camera rather than by cinematographer Ramsey Fendall.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not professionally attuned to slight variances in playing you would completely miss some of the errors that Bernstein finds in the students\u2014who to the untrained ear sound simply gorgeous on the piano from which Bernstein teaches in his Upper West Side apartment.\u00a0 He is encouraging, as every teacher must be, but by criticizing his students who appear to vary in age between fifteen and fifty, he is implicitly demonstrating his faith in the their ability to play flawlessly.<\/p>\n

In one of his insights that show Bernstein as an enemy of machismo, he laments the way that so many men subdue their feminine aspects.\u00a0 Macho men may go for the stormy sounds of Beethoven\u2014as my own former students of history are able to appreciate the climax of Tchaikowsky\u2019s 1812 Overture\u2014but we should all be able to tap on the soft pedal, he opines.\u00a0 But what human being with even the slightest cultivation could resist the romantic notes of a Schumann, a Schubert, a Berlioz?<\/p>\n

Like \u201cFifty Shades of Grey,\u201d \u201cSeymour: An Introduction,\u201d looks bound for a sequel.\u00a0 This might give us more insights into Bernstein\u2019s father, who had no appreciation of his son\u2019s talent, perhaps to hear snippets of some of the creations of this warm-hearted pianist-teacher-composer.<\/p>\n

Rated PG.\u00a0 81 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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