Documentary hits all the right notes

Ken Wardrop upends the clichés about piano lessons

Making the Grade: the music documentary explores the relationship between student and teacher

Cinema

Making the Grade: Directed by Ken Wardrop, Nationwide, G,Rating:****

Custody: Directed by Xavier Legrand, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:****

The new film from Ken Wardrop is another of the documentarian’s cockle-warming studies of life in Ireland, this time centred on stories of piano students preparing for the Royal Irish Academy musical exams; from the Chopsticks of grade one to the Chopins of grade eight.

When we think of depictions of piano lessons in cinema, we ...