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New Werner Herzog film, 'The Piano Tuner'

Werner Herzog is heading to Burma for his new film, 'The Piano Tuner'

German New Waver Werner Herzog is set to return to fiction filmmaking with a Victorian-era drama called ‘The Piano Tuner’, based on a 2002 novel by Daniel Mason about a British man who is sent to a remote village in war-torn Burma to tune the piano of a daffy soldier.

Sounds like perfect material for the eccentric director, who has recently been displaying his oddball charm in front of the camera as a plane-flying priest in the recent ‘Mister Lonely’, and in US-released poker comedy ‘The Grand’, where he plays a vicious card shark who reputedly utters the line: ‘Most people drink coffee, but I think it is some sort of beverage of the cowards.’

Author: Time Out



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  • BSH said...
    Is this film available in Israel? Posted on Jan 30 2012 20:25
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  • Victoria said...
    I have just finished reading the book, during my summer holidays (Southern hemisphere summer), I thought it was fascinating and all the time I thought of Herzog, because the story of moving a piano into the forest is very Fitzcarraldean...there couldn't be a better director for such a film, which has not arrived here in Argentina I think...at least I hadn't heard of it! Posted on Feb 06 2011 16:01
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  • Jer said...
    I read the "Piano Tuner", and after chapter five it really picked up . . . that's where I began to enjoy. Reading it seemed like I was watching a movie. It reminded me of the movie "Jacob's Ladder", especially because of the way fugue played two parts there-- one for the style of music another for his mental state probably due to the affects of malaria. Posted on Nov 21 2010 05:57
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