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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

2005 · 99 min

A slow, dreamlike descent into a sinister inventor's world, where stop-motion automata and opera blend into an eerie, melancholic fairy tale.

Overview: Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, dark and romantic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, identity, death, art
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
death
art
madness
Places: single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild