The Music of Strangers

Name: The Music of Strangers
Director: Morgan Neville
Released: 2015

Morgan Neville 2015

From the director of the Oscar® -winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, and the critically-acclaimed Best of Enemies, The Music of Strangers tells the extraordinary story of The Silk Road Ensemble, an international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Sound of Silk follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.

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Running Time:

96 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Morgan Neville

Producers:

Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers

Press

Hollywood Reporter

"MUSICALLY DELIGHTFUL! A first-rate music film capturing a restless desire to communicate... the spirit of hybrid creativity is infectious."

John DeFore
Exclaim.Ca

“POWERFUL AND THOUGHT PROVOKING!”

Matthew Ritchie
LA Daily News

“A TOTAL BLAST! SPIRITUALLY TRANSPORTING” Transporting in the spiritual as well as the sonic sense. totally blissful!”

Bob Strauss
The Seattle Times

"AN IRRESISTIBLE KALEIDOSCOPE (OF MUSIC AND GOOD FELLOWSHIP)... FINDS POETRY IN THE ABILITY OF MUSIC TO BRING US HOME AGAIN, WHEREVER WE MAY TRAVEL."

Moira MacDonald
POV Magazine

"WONDERFUL! A world tour of sights and sounds. The performances are just as impressive as the showstopping numbers of TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM. A symphony for the eyes and ears alike!"

Patrick Mullen
RogerEbert.com

"CONSISTENTLY ALIVE! So fun to watch. It's most insightful message: changing the world through music."

Tina Hassania
Boston Globe

“ENTERTAINING! Yo-Yo Ma is charming and funny”

Janice Page
Washington Post

"Offers an INSPIRING LOOK at creative people from very different walks of life who nonetheless communicate beautifully with one another. They don’t need to speak a common language: THEIR DAZZLING MUSIC SAYS IT ALL"
Chicago Reader

"An AFFIRMATIVE ANSWER to Leonard Bernstein's question of whether music can truly serve as a 'UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE'."
StarTribune

"...spiritual...delicious and COMPLETELY IRRESISTIBLE"
Arizona Republic

"It’s COMPELLING, and of course the music, taken from all parts of the world and played by musicians on every sort of instrument, is INTRIGUING."
Variety

"An AURAL CELEBRATION that’s about using the past to break free of boundaries."
NY Times

"...lovely to watch...even more BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR."
The Wall Street Journal

"A JOYOUS REVELATION, a group portrait of superb musicians from all over the world offering music as an emblem of what people can do in these fractious times when they live in concert with one another."

Festival Participation

Berlinale
Perth International Arts Festival
Full Frame Festival
Miami International Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival

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