Event

Seymour: An Introduction

Seymour: An Introduction
Directed by Ethan Hawke
English
1 hr 21 mins, rated PG

SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION is a glorious portrait of one of the most unlikely but truly magnetic characters ever to grace the screen 86 year-old pianist Seymour Bernstein (whom Hawke first met at a dinner party, when Bernstein counseled him through a bout of stage fright).

Seymour Bernstein started playing the piano as a little boy, and by the time he turned fifteen, he was teaching it to others. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a performer before he gave it up to devote himself to helping others develop their own gifts. While Ethan Hawke's gentle, meditative study is a warm and lucid portrait of Bernstein and his exceptional life and work, it's also a love letter to the study of music itself, and a film about the patience, concentration, and devotion that are fundamental to the practice of art. SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION allows us to spend time with a generous human being who has found balance and harmony through his love of music.