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Ten years after their Institute Benjamenta, master animators The Brothers Quay turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes once again places its cast in a world of minutely artificed trompe l`oeil, in which the boundary between the organic and the automatic is eerily dissolved. The story begins with a sinister, swooning overture at the opera, as singer Malvina is spirited away by her menacing admirer Dr Droz. The action then shifts to Droz`s remote island, where one Felisberto is summoned to `tune` the seven automata that are installed in strange mechanical tableaux around the island.
The Quays` initial inspiration was Argentinian fabulist Adolfo Bioy Casares, but other echoes abound: Raymond Roussel, Jules Verne, Portuguese baroque art, and the paintings of Bocklin and Magritte. The Quays are unrivalled for their silversmith-like fastidiousness in creating strange hermetic dream worlds, and their latest film resembles little else in cinema - although it does share some of its score with Chris Marker`s classic La Jetée.. Abandon all preconceptions and surrender to the strange fantasmal drift of a darkly magical world.
                                                                   Jonathan Romney