Francis Girard has broken new ground for film in his Thirty- Two Short Films about Glenn Gould. This 94-minute film draws inspiration from bodi the Goldberg Variations and Gould and is literally composed of thirty two vignettes. These vignettes richly suggest structured variations and interconnected elements of Gould's short life. Colm Feore plays Gould as a calm, physically austere man whose isolation and eccentricities are only partially suggested by the film. For Uiose viewers who know of Gould, the movie is both a visual and musical delight. For people interested in film, the movie serves as a modern example of how a film can be constructed as a series of biographical associations. This is obviously not a classical biography which fits neady into the narrative form of a movie with a beginning,