Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

In anticipation of his friend Philip Glass’s 70th birthday, filmmaker Scott Hicks ('Shine') documented a year in the life of the contemporary concert hall’s best-known composer. The result is a 12-part ‘mosaic portrait’ of Glass that follows him across several continents showing him at work and at home. Glass’s own accounts of himself are contrasted with a gamut of other views, both music-related and devastatingly personal. (“I don’t know what you’re going to do about Philip’s wives. We’ve already decided we’re not going to tell you anything about them,” says Glass’s sister.) 

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