The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
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- Release Date: 2006
- Runtime: 99 min
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
- Starring: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna, César Saracho ... see all
- Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Plot: Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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| Feb 09, 2007Deseret News
Things only get weirder from there, though it is visually stunning.....MST "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" is just bizarre enough to be interesting.....The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" is not rated but would probably receive a PG-13 for some violent and disturbing imagery, as well as some brief sexual contact..... ... Full Review
| Nov 30, 2006Boston Globe
Consequently, one admires "Piano Tuner" without ever being swept up into it.....the brothers' own obsessiveness is the movie's true subject..... ... Full Review
Entertainment Insiders
For many years, the brothers Quay have been animation's dirty little secret.
This is nasty, brutish and long.
The acting, I guess, is good enough for what it's supposed to be, all overwrought and theatrical.
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'The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes'
villagevoice.com –
2006-11-14
Evoking fairy tales, European art, surrealist literature, and daguerreotypes, London -based directors the Brothers Quay confound their viewers with as much lush imagery as they can cram into a frame. ... Full Article
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
slantmagazine.com –
2006-08-23
Institute Benjamenta , Stephen and Timothy Quay return to the land of the live-action-and the fixations that have defined their groundbreaking stop-motion animated work-with The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes , a tragic fairy tale drenched in otherworldly visual splendor. ... Full Article
Ever since their Palme D'Or-nominated Street of Crocodiles brought them to the attention of critics and new fans in 1986, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have parlayed their willfully weird stop-motion animation into a dazzling array of projects for... ... Full Article
Some animators make the jump from short films to features with little trouble (Frank Tashlin, Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Svankmajer), but the Brothers Quay (a.k.a. Stephen and Timothy Quay) appear not to grasp the long form quite as well. ... Full Article
As in all of the work of the brothers Quay, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is shrouded in gloomy atmospherics, Expressionist sets, a story that ebbs and flows with the night-tide logic of a dream, and supremely disturbing stop-motion animation. ... Full Article