Why ‘Navalny’ Oscar Winner Daniel Roher Moved to Fiction for the Crowdpleasing ‘Tuner’
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Why ‘Navalny’ Oscar Winner Daniel Roher Moved to Fiction for the Crowdpleasing ‘Tuner’
Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) makes his move into features with his accomplished debut “Tuner.” This engaging crowdpleaser first wowed audiences on the fall festival circuit and now hits theaters. A romantic thriller set in the New York music world, “Tuner” is taut as a drum. We know what octogenarian Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman (“Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Rain Man”) can do. But British actor Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus,” “Br…
Tuner review — 'an easy-going thriller throwback'
Leo Woodall’s charm has already got him through a trip on the Italian coast (The White Lotus), Netflix’s most devastating modern romance (One Day), and even a run-in with Bridget Jones, but with Tuner, he’s finally handed a true star vehicle, proving well and truly ready to take the wheel. In Daniel Roher’s romance-cum-thriller-cum-drama, Woodall plays Niki, a piano tuner with a rare hearing condition who, after being hit with mounting medical b…
Daniel Roher swaps Navalny for a piano-tuner heist with Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman
A piano tuner sits in a room with an instrument and listens for what almost nobody else in the room can hear: a frequency drift of a fraction of a semitone, a sympathetic vibration that shouldn’t be there, the patient catalogue of tiny mechanical wrongnesses that a tuned piano hides. The conceptual situation that Tuner sets up is that the same patient ear, applied to a slightly different object, will open a safe. The picture rests on the proposi…
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