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The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
Directed by
Stephen Quay
,
Timothy Quay
Not Rated
2004
1h 39m
Drama
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Romance
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6.2
42%
58%
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Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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Cast of The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
Amira Casar
Malvina van Stille
Gottfried John
Dr. Emmanuel Droz
Assumpta Serna
Assumpta
César Saratxu
Adolfo Blin / Don Felisberto Fernandez
Ljubisa Gruicic
Holz (gardener)
Marc Bischoff
Marc (gardener)
Henning Peker
Henning (gardener)
Gilles Gavois
Echeverria (gardener)
Thomas Schmieder
Thomas (gardener)
Regine Zimmermann
Dresser
Emil Petrovics
Musician
Stephen Quay
Director / Writer
Timothy Quay
Director / Writer
Alan Passes
Writer
Keith Griffiths
Producer
Hengameh Panahi
Producer
Alexander Ris
Producer
The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Guy Maddin
Shot in HD and wholly embracing the technology, Piano Tuner makes bold leaps into visual domains previously untrodden by filmmakers, even the Quays, but incorporates plenty of their animation and their trademark density of decor. Absolutely entrancing!!!
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The narrative fails to be as colorful as the title.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
What the movie lacks in acting and coherence, it more than makes up for through imagery.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jeff Vice
The 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.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
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.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
This opaque tale offers meticulously crafted atmosphere, but rather less passion or drama.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
As in most of the Quays' fantasias, the narrative is oblique and slow moving but the florid visuals are rife with sexual and psychological overtones.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Like a dream, this film is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The whole movie feels filmed through the wrong end of a stereopticon: stiff, fascinating, riddled with secrets it doesn't care to divulge.
Los Angeles Times
Kristine McKenna
... those who can surrender to the Quays' poetic logic will find "The Piano Tuner" to be nothing short of a masterpiece.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
However much The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes wants to haunt your dreams, it has a better chance of production-designing you to death.
Village Voice
Karen Wilson
What we are seeing is the most rational irrationality-and all sheer artifice anyway.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
[Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is] one of those rare examples of a completely original environment created for the screen. Then people start talking, and the snoozing soon commences.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Mainstream audiences will be put off by the lack of a straightforward narrative, but adventurous moviegoers will find pleasure in the hypnotic originality of the images.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's probably best to approach the Quay Brothers' dreamlike fantasy (which they call 'poetic science-fiction') with the understanding that you'll never quite know what's going on.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Stephen and Timothy Quay merge live-action and animation to create a tragic fantasy about a beautiful opera singer, a lovesick piano tuner and the mad scientist with plans for both of them.
Newsday
John Anderson
That something as elusive as this gothicized, imagist romance from the curious Quay brothers should be considered their most accessible film might be considered odd. But so might they.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Snow globe visions and gnarly mouth nightmares swirl together in this darkly lyrical fantasia.
The Hollywood Reporter
A finely crafted horror film with a devious storyline and hauntingly beautiful production design that together are the stuff of nightmares.
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