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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:17
Rotten:23
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Though visually stunning and brilliantly original, the film fails to resonate emotionally.
Theatrical Release:Nov 17, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is a dark and twisted fairytale filled with bizarrely beautiful imagery. The story concerns a doctor who kidnaps a stunning opera singer with desires of keeping her... [More]
Starring: Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna, Amira Casar
Director: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
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Reviews for The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
blends live action and animation to create a surreal hermetic vision that is as beautifully seductive as it is chillingly inaccessible.
08/02/07
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05/12/07
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04/28/07
Top CriticWhat the movie lacks in acting and coherence, it more than makes up for through imagery.
03/02/07
Top CriticThe story proves to be elusive, and the robotic performances of the cast make it hard to care about any of the characters -- or to try to figure out what's supposed to be going on.
02/08/07
It's one thing to make an audience sweat a bit to ferret out a plot, or piece together visual clues in order to comprehend a film. But it's quite another to dunk such richly imagined pictures in such a thick coat of shadow.
01/26/07
It's a hauntingly effective, poetic mood piece but an exasperating drama.
01/19/07
Top CriticBeyond that? Not much.
01/18/07
It is a bold step into a mainstream realm for its ancient fablelike theme, agile storytelling, magnificent design and sure grasp of long-form narrative structure.
01/12/07
The Quay brothers have created a gloriously gorgeous filmwith wondrous set pieces that have been beautifully shot inburnished tones by cinematographer Nic Knowland. It's a dark and disturbing fairy tale that fans of the brothers' work will embrace.
01/11/07
This opaque tale offers meticulously crafted atmosphere, but rather less passion or drama.
01/05/07
Top CriticAs in most of the Quays' fantasias, the narrative is oblique and slow moving but the florid visuals are rife with sexual and psychological overtones.
01/05/07
Top CriticLike a dream, this film is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
01/04/07
Exquisitely detailed, difficult to grasp hold of, and always obscured by molds and corrosions. The Quay Brothers are distinct oddities in the landscape of contemporary cinema.
12/08/06
Characters slowly whisper their dialogue to one another in scenes that would put the dead to sleep.
12/07/06
The whole movie feels filmed through the wrong end of a stereopticon: stiff, fascinating, riddled with secrets it doesn't care to divulge.
12/01/06
Top CriticThe music is gorgeously classical and some of the images are memorable and haunting, but experiencing the film is near-torture.
12/01/06
... those who can surrender to the Quays' poetic logic will find "The Piano Tuner" to be nothing short of a masterpiece.
11/30/06
Top CriticHowever much The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes wants to haunt your dreams, it has a better chance of production-designing you to death.
11/30/06
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