Short film
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
2006 · 17 min
A quiet, intimate portrait of a musician's resilience, blending sadness and hope through reflective interviews and archival moments.
- Directed by
- Nathaniel Kahn
- Overview
- In 1964, Leon Fleisher's career as a concert pianist was thriving. A seemingly minor accident - a cut on his right thumb - led to dystonia, the involuntary curling of his right hand's ring and little fingers. In recent interviews, Fleisher talks about what followed: the end of a marriage, despair and disappointments, surgery in 1983 that led to a brief return to the concert hall, and, finally, with Botox and Rolfing, the ability to play with two hands. In between, Fleisher discovers his ecstasies: conducting, teaching, and playing compositions for one hand commissioned in the early twentieth century for a World War I veteran.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and uplifting. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Healing, grief, identity, art
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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