Ravel's Brain
Directed by Larry Weinstein
2001Documentary52 minCanada
A tragic and celebratory tone poem on Maurice Ravel's final years, when illness left him able to hear music in his head but unable to write it down.
StatusAvailable to book
Release2001
Runtime52 min
FormatsDCP · Digital file
On screensReady to book
Synopsis
A loving musical tone poem at once tragic and celebratory that evokes and explores Ravel's illness-plagued final years, when he was able to produce music but couldn't write it down.
The director
Larry Weinstein is a Toronto director and a co-founder of Rhombus Media, with more than 40 productions to his name. He is celebrated for unconventional, emotionally charged music documentaries, among them Ravel's Brain, Beethoven's Hair and Mozartballs.
