Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
Shadow Distribution | Release Date: September 7, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A potent and imaginative creative biography of virtuoso percussionist Glennie. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
A lesson in listening. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Touch the Sound is at least as inspiring and in some ways more rewarding, thought-provoking and subtly visceral. Read full review
80
Village VoiceLeslie Camhi
It's rare that a documentary conveys an artist's worldview so compellingly, but then Glennie is no ordinary musician. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
This is synergy of a high order. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
The film's discretion short-circuits any impulse we might have to regard Glennie as a handicapped person who has “overcome.” Instead, we're led to experience her life as she does - as an adventure in which setbacks are not challenges, but illuminations of untracked paths. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Innovative sounds and striking visuals combine to form an exquisite cinematic work. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The celebrated percussionist Evelyn Glennie is the subject of a wonderful documentary called Touch the Sound, although calling her a percussionist is like calling Brancusi a demolitionist.
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Call this a profile in courage. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The result is a feast for the senses. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Beautifully shot and filled with gorgeous music. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Riedelsheimer, earlier made "Rivers and Tides" (2002), about another artist from Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, whose art involves materials found in nature...Evelyn Glennie and Andy Goldsworthy have in common a profound sensitivity to their environments. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
The juxtapositions can be beautiful: haunting music played over a water-streaked windshield, a deaf student awakening to the "feeling" of sound, Glennie staring ferociously at a gong as she extracts its vibrations. Read full review
70
VarietyEddie Cockrell
Fans of the Grammy-winning musician will revel in the proximity to their idol, though second pic from talented helmer Thomas Riedelsheimer plays a tad long to those unfamiliar with his, or her, work. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
May be too heady to take in one sitting. Even given relatively calm passages-like a hushed tour through the courtyard of a Scottish castle or a mediation on ripples in a pond-there's just too much to absorb. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Evelyn Glennie has worked with everyone from Bjork to Brazilian samba groups and also gives solo concerts, and the best segments simply show her at work in her mid-30s, explaining what she does. Read full review
60
Washington PostTim Page
Unfortunately, a good deal of Touch the Music"is devoted to vacuous interviews with Glennie, who seems positively incapable of saying anything substantial. Nor is most of the music very good. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJoshua Kosman
There is a maddening sense of dislocation through much of the movie -- a feeling that genuinely fascinating questions have been squeezed out by woo-woo philosophizing and material (like Glennie's brief return to the family farm) of only minor import. Read full review
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