Shine - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 (HD)

A wonderful scene from the movie Shine.

[philipboug]

Many years ago (25+) I bumped into David Helfgott at an airline check-in queue at Cairns Airport, where I had just spent an idyllic week in FNQ with a friend. He Was walking up and down the queue happily chatting to everyone with his wife while she, was desperately trying to pull him away fearing he was offending people. When he got to me I asked him for a hug which he supplied enthusiastically, and said what an honour it was to meet him. He asked me “Why?”…
I could not answer that question, there is no answer.

[DV-Gradinar]

You have to experience this movie. I watched it back in 1996 (or 1997) at FEST in Belgrade. I cried in the cinema after this scene.

[dizzy]

Every time I hear this version, or see the movie, tears are coming up in my eyes. My favorite movie!
A friend of me met David Helfgott in the Blue traintrip in South Africa and he is liek in this movie. Hugging everybody he did not know up to then.
This scene and the Bumble bee made me learn to listen to Rachm, and appriciate more and more classical music. And Amadeus of course after reading the books about Mozart.

[robertcyr]

This movie still captivates me and to this day there is 3 scenes I think are among the best ever filmed.

[xephyra]

My own 2-cent movie analysis: Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto is used extensively throughout this movie as a metaphor for David's mental/emotional state, and other clues are given as well. His professor says "no one's ever been mad enough to attempt the Rach 3" and David asks "am I mad enough professor?" The professer then gives a look as if to say "yes" LOL. He often runs while dropping his sheet music everywhere. He once walked up the stairs with no pants or underwear on. When he performs the cadenza for his teacher at the Royal College, he has trouble sticking with the notes and is scolded. He plays until the piano wire snaps-- a foreshadowing of David "snapping".

When he finally performs the concerto we see here, the excerpts are played out of order, again hinting at his chaotic inner mental world. Look at the frenzied camerawork as David plays that crazy scherzo near the end. Finally David falls on stage... again, not LITERALLY happening since there is dead silence, no one in the background and no one rushing to his aid on stage, indicating this is all happening in his head just as the snapping piano wire foreshadowed.

Much later after David performs the Flight of The Bumblebee in the tavern and is getting praise, you hear the triumphant arpeggios of Rach 3's 3rd movement playing in the background. Fantastic cinematography!

I credit this movie with awakening my love of Rachmaninoff's music, especially this concerto, and classical music in general.

[jorgegarcia-]

excellent movie.. one of my favorites of all time

[modernsophist]

2:00 the movie jumps from the beginning of the first movement to the middle of the 3rd movement.
3:16 the movie goes back to the end of the second movement
3:37 the movie jumps to the end of the third movement
Obviously they couldn't do the entire concerto, but I'm glad they got most of my favorite parts of the concerto. One of the finest pieces of music ever composed!

[ulricb]

Saw Garrick Ohlsson perform this about twenty years ago. He gave a talk before he played and said "I learned this piece when I was younger before I could be afraid of it, and contrary to the movie 'Shine' it will not drive you crazy.... well not anymore than any other concerto". Great movie, greater performance, and greatest piece.

[phildavenport]

I was at Forrest High at the same time but never got to know him. He was pretty much a loner, easily identified by his shock of hair and distant look. I saw him many years later at a private concert in Perth and he had changed so much.

[antonioferrari]

Scena iconica del film Shine in cui più di uno perde la testa . Dalla bellezza e dalla difficoltà. Uno spaccato inimitabile di umanità.

[cosmopolitan]

LimYunChan, the winner of Clibun competition of 2022 led me here. :)

[CensureAsylum]

Big respect. Seven hours a day every day: that isolation alone could drive a mind mad.

[myauralfixation]

Noah did such a great job in this movie. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.

[jcmat]

The rhytmic frenzy and breakneck pace in which this sequence happens is mesmerizing… makes you feel how David slowly unraveled from this titanic effort. Brilliant direction and acting, all around!! ❤❤❤

[OKBA]

Super! Awesome movie Actresses and Actors; great Scott Hicks film!!

[HBelfort]

What a spectacular performance by Noah Taylor.

[elionaidgranados]

my god this David HelfGott Story is the most chilling if not Historic for the entire music world !!!

[toscanoplaster]

My friend David did this same performance also at 16 years old at Juilliard School in new york. He developed an abnormality of the tendons not long afterwards and it was over....played since age 3 his mother a gifted teacher and pianist herself in north carolina

[cynicsupreme]

2:30 one of the most beautiful movements in all of piano composition by top 3 composers of all time

[Teodor-ho]

Life does not accept to surprise us except with what is painful. And within all this greatness and beauty, our heart is squeezed with pain.