Scott Hicks

Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hicks (“Shine”) documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese. (fonte: Imdb)

As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott’s musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott’s latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions. (fonte: Imdb)

Ishmael is a local reporter covering a murder trial involving the 1954 death of a fisherman in a small island community in the Pacific Northwest. What first looks like a straight-forward case soon turns into a unnerving series of mysteries, intensified by flashbacks to WWII Japanese concentration camps and the realization that the wife of the accused murderer is his childhood sweetheart. (fonte: imdb)

A causa delle proprie qualità impressionanti come pianista, David Helfgott è in perenne conflitto con il padre. Nonostante le difficoltà in famiglia, l'aspirante musicista riesce ad ottenere una borsa di studio e si reca a Londra, dove vede avverarsi il sogno di una carriera. Le pressioni legate alla fama ed al successo però, aumentano con l'incrementare della popolarità ed il giovane non sembra in grado di mantenere la stabilità interiore.(fonte: Wikipedia)