The Tuba Thieves (2024)
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
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good film but with many flaws
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.