Interview with director Peter Raymont


RM: Was there anything surprising or unexpected that you learned about Gould as you were making the film?

Peter Raymont: I think his fatherliness. He was a surrogate father for four years to Eliza and Chris, and that’s a side of Gould’s personality that people were not aware of at all.

His playfulness, too. And his desperate loneliness just breaks my heart. Here he is asking his recording engineer to be his brother. He had so few close friends.

His sexuality was always kind of unknown and unspoken of up here in Canada. Some people thought he was homosexual or asexual, when in fact he actually had several girlfriends in his life.

He’s someone who’s desperate to be loved and who loves other people. And I think that humanizes him a great deal for viewers of the film and for listeners of his music.


Full interview here:

http://www.examiner.com/movies-in-atlanta/peter-raymont-interview-geni us-within-director-talks-glenn-gould-documentari

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