The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)

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.

Like a dream, this film is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.

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.

Characters slowly whisper their dialogue to one another in scenes that would put the dead to sleep.

The music is gorgeously classical and some of the images are memorable and haunting, but experiencing the film is near-torture.

However much The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes wants to haunt your dreams, it has a better chance of production-designing you to death.