The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I love this movie so much

Why so much hype?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is the Quay brothers' second feature-length film, and to be sure, it is a real beauty. It is probably most comparable to "Le Cite des les Enfants Perdus" as a fantasy feature film that creates its own fairy-tale space in ways much more viscerally beyond the level of typical fantasy; the very air is saturated with the sense of the Otherworldly and the magical, and it's obvious the Quays are working off of a lot of influences from mythology and fairy tales....and it's also not nearly as good as their short film animations, partly because it's not an animation. They do mix animation and live-action well, quite well, in this movie, but what The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes lacks more than any other film of theirs I've seen is the gut-reaction most of their shorts give. It is infinitely visually pleasing, but it doesn't have the power to awe or disturb the way their other work does.The reason? As best as I can tell, the movement. There's something eerie and uncanny about the ways the brothers Quay craft actual motion, but so much animation was cut out of this (reportedly, enough to make another feature-length) and left to the live-action that it just doesn't send off the same tone. They also make it worse by constantly fading out in the middle of shots. That approach is explained as an attempt to bring the viewer into a moment of high drama, and then cut the light (something evil Dr. Droz literally does in the movie), but it tends to disappoint the viewer that just wants to revel in the strong visuals.I do really like the plot-point about the ants and the spores, and its re-occurrence later in the narrative. If the rest of the film had the power of that point, it would have been truly unforgettable.I still consider the brothers Quay to be spectacular film artists and amazingly unique creative minds, and I'll bet their further feature-length work will be even better. However, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is a surprisingly forgettable film.--PolarisDiB

There are some writers (Kafka, Haruki Murakami), some musicians (Monk, Trane, Beethoven), some artists (Max Ernst) and some directors (The Brothers Quay and possibly David Lynch) whose work never disappoints me.I don't care if a movie makes sense or not. In fact, I prefer dream logic to real logic (forget about Hollywood logic!). The Piano Tuner draws you into a world you cannot forget. The alternately subtle and dramatic lighting choices the directors/cinematographers made were compelling.The fact that the protagonist looks a bit like Kafka and has a similar predeliction for dreams and a similar love life happened to resonate for me.True surrealism did not die out in the Thirties, but what passes for surrealism these days is generally anything that is "weird" or "fantastical." The Brothers Quay have put together a movie that the classic surrealists (and today's surrealists!) would have loved is an accomplishment of which the Brothers Quay should be proud.Any movie that changes the way I look at the world when I walk out of theater rates ten quivering mechanical thumbs up for me.

I really wanted to like this movie, but it was just imposable. The acting was ultra hammy, the plot was annoying, and the pace was SLOW, sooo slowwwwww. The whole time sitting in the theater i wanted the movie to end. Twenty minuets into a films and I'm praying for an ending. Sure some of the visuals were nice, but c'mon guys, I mean really! And for a movie about a guy tuning magical instruments there really wasn't much music to speak of. The music there was was annoying, and boring. There were sound loud shrill sounds at times too, those were also annoying. Mainly this film managed to bore me, and creep me out at the same time.I'm glad its over. I need to go see "Tideland" and wash this bad taste out of my mouth.

This is not a movie for people who do not know a great deal, and people who are not willing to think - the authors, whoever they are, made a great film, but not for people who do not like to work their brains - the Heros of the story are Dr. Droz, and Assumpta. In the end, Assumpta becomes Dr. Droz, as the assumption of the movie is that all enlightened people are spiritually one. The puppet is that part of Assumpta that was not quite enlightened, and the tree she cuts down represents all the unenlightment in her life found in her friends and herself - when she finally becomes one with all the other enlightened people in the world (at the end of the movie), we see her looking in upon the lives of the piano tuner, and Malvina, who represent people who have tried to be enlightened, but gave up forever, and are now being used by the Droz to teach the world about the fact that it is being controlled and managed by a secret organization of Enlightened Masters who are one with each other completely. There is not even a slight hint of illogic in this movie, maybe that is why you might be having a hard time understanding it - I have yet to see a comment that even gets close to grasping the profound meaning of this movie - no one has a clue, and that is too bad - you would think that a professional critic would at least have some clue as to what the movie wants to say to the thinking world!