The Red Violin (1999) more movies like this

directed by François Girard
featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau

Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy gives a performance in the court of Vienna in 1792. ...

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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994) more movies like this

directed by François Girard
featuring Derek Keurvost, Colm Feore, Gale Garnett, Katya Ladan, Gerry Quigley

The highly acclaimed and famously eccentric classical pianist Glenn Gould is the subject of this idiosyncratic film portrait. As the title suggests, Gould's life is explored through a series of thirty-two self-contained but interrelated vignettes, a structure inspired by Bach's "Goldberg Variations," the compositions that were the basis for one of ...

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Silk (2007) more movies like this

directed by François Girard
featuring Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani

Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and this allows the man to live in great comfort with his wife (Keira Knightley). After a few years, they are ...

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