The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay's typically precious variation on The Phantom of the Opera, set in a dreamily vague 19th-century Europe, combines live action and their trademark animation into a creepy, glittering object whose dreamlike quality are mesmerizing to a particular kind of sensibility. Haughty mezzo-soprano Malvina van Stille (Amira Casar), who's about to marry musician Adolfo (Cesar Sarachu), pays no mind to the secret admirer who sends obsessive notes and gifts of hothouse lilies. But Dr. Emmanuel Droz (Gottfried John) is far more than a besotted fan: He's a brilliant madman with a mission to avenge himself on the smug opera world that h...