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For six decades, Cuban-born Leo Brouwer has been at the vanguard of guitarist-composers. Here's a look into how his work has helped redefine classical guitar repertoire.
(The article continues below - Commercial information) Directed by filmmaker Fabrizio Laurenti and journalist Niccolò Vivarelli (who is also Piero’s grandson), the film adopts a somewhat traditional register which isn’t entirely new to the biographical documentary genre, alternating numerous stock images with interviews out of the archives or shot ad hoc. But in spite of the film’s somewhat unoriginal form, its portrait of the man in question emerges with sheer force and successfully sidesteps hagiography. Generally speaking, Vivarelli’s charisma and follies lend the film a pleasant ...