A Film by the Quay Brothers.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Color, Black & White, English, Subtitled
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature from the Quay Brothers. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a "diabolical opera" and of Malvina's fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz's perverse universe...Starring Amira Casar (Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell), Assumpta Serna (Pedro Almodovar's Matador), Cesar Sarachu (Institute Benjamenta) and Gottfried John (Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Marriage of Maria Braun).
"...visually and aurally stunning, a typically eccentric Gothic fantasy with a sultry atmosphere." Geoff Andrew, Time Out London
"Bizarre, operatic drama...one of the most visually striking films you'll see in this - or any - year." James Mottram, Film Review
"It's solid, evocative, dramatic stuff - mysterious and primal." Kim Newman, Sight & Sound
"These are the masters of the contemporary uncanny." Marina Warner, The Guardian
"A finely crafted horror film with a devious storyline and hauntingly beautiful production design." The Hollywood Reporter
Editor's Note
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is a dark and twisted fairytale filled with bizarrely beautiful imagery. The story concerns a doctor who kidnaps a stunning opera singer with desires of keeping her in a cage.
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