The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes

Time Out says
The Quays’ long-awaited follow-up to their wonderful debut feature 'Institute Benjamenta' is as imaginative and visually seductive as one might expect. Again live action is combined with puppet animation in the story of a beautiful opera singer (Casar) abducted during a performance by the sinister Dr Droz (John), who whisks her off to his remote tropical island, where the titular tuner (Sarachu) is hired to adjust the machinery of seven automata… In other words, it's a weird fairy tale, a Gothic fable of obsessive desire, magical expertise and bizarre coincidence that owes at least as much to painting and literature as to cinema. The pace, wholly in keeping with the hothouse setting in which the delectable damsel's kept, perhaps tends a little too much to the languid, and Sarachu's performance doesn't reaslly work, but for those who like their movies different, ambitious and luscious to look at, there's much here to enjoy.
Details
Release details
Rated:
12A
Release date:
Friday February 17 2006
Duration:
99 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Brothers Quay
Screenwriter:
Alan Passes, Brothers Quay
Cast:
Amira Casar
Gottfried John
Assumpta Serna
Cesar Sarachu
Ljubisa Gruicic
Gottfried John
Assumpta Serna
Cesar Sarachu
Ljubisa Gruicic
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