Nadia Boulanger

미셸 르그랑은 유명한 영화음악을 다수 만든 영화음악 작곡가이다("쉘부르의 우산", "토마스 크라운 어페어", "엔틀" 등). 오스카상 3개, 그래미상 5개를 거머쥔 전설적인 작곡가 르그랑은 저명한 프랑스와 미국 감독뿐 아니라 재즈 음악가와 가수들과도 협업하기도 하였다. 이 작품은 여러 얼굴을 지닌 삶과 커리어를 누렸던 다가가기 힘든 예술가의 초현실적 여정을 담아낸다. (2019년 제15회 제천국제음악영화제)

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. Stravinsky's three surviving children talk about their father and there are contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky, his music associate Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Nadia Boulanger and many friends. Included in the film are important performances: Les Noces has never before been heard in this, its original form, and the choreography of Petrushka was specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi and was not seen in this form since 1911. Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself in this unique film.

This documentary is the first film ever made by Bruno Monsaingeon. It was shot in the 1960s and early 1970s in grainy black and white and only average sound, when Boulanger was in her late 80s and still fearsomely in command of her abilities. Monsaingeon re-cut the film in 1977. This film remains one of the most important documents concerning this fabled teacher. She is seen at one of her fabled 'Wednesdays', a composition lesson held weekly in her apartment for almost six decades and attended by anyone who would come. In this particular session she talks illuminatingly with students about a small portion of Schumann's 'Davidsbündertanze'.