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Film · 1996 · Drama
Shine
Directed by Scott Hicks
1996
★ 3.8 editorial score
Geoffrey Rush learned the Rachmaninov himself so the hands would be right: the pianist David Helfgott, filmed across three ages, and a father who cannot let a prodigy leave home.
“David's piano playing is at first a skill that comes naturally to him; only later does it become an art, a way of self-expression. What is terrifying for him is that the better he gets, the closer he comes to expressing feelings that his father has charged with enormous guilt.”
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