Seymour: An Introduction

A warmhearted love letter from one artist to another, actor turned director Ethan Hawke’s debut documentary was born from a chance encounter with Seymour Bernstein, a virtuoso New York pianist who quietly retired from the concert hall at 50 to live a more humble life as a composer and teacher. As the octogenarian maestro prepares for his first public performance in decades, Hawke bonds with his subject over shared experiences of stage fright and crushing self-doubt. But mostly the director stays respectfully out of frame, allowing Bernstein’s natural grace, modesty and wisdom to flow through the film like music.