Spent Indie that is far better than it sounds

Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall make up pretty pair “Tuner. “Hoffman’s character, the technician of the Veteran Harry Horovitz, losing his hearing, which he calls Hyperacuses, which at all sounds, even the smallest sounds bother him, even the smallest sounds of him, even the smallest sounds They bother. Even the smallest sounds bother him. Even the smallest sounds bother him.

“It’s not about listening. It’s about feeling,” explains Harry, and the same is true Daniel RoherSpecial ads for ashes, which smartly plays our emotions without resorting to cheap manipulations. (However, hearing helps, because otherwise you miss original music Marius de Vries.) You can recognize Roher as Oscar-winning director of “Navalnik”, although his genresque first natural characteristic cannot be different.

The Roma-Com-COM was transferred with a low criminal triller, in combination with something more serious – fearful to ask existential issues of overcoming handicap that directly affects one’s art – “tuner” feels like a discovery Telluride Film Festivalwhere it is premiered premier without a distributor. The Roher’s convenient debut feels more like a return to a well-written, the 90s of the 90s like “good will” and “shine” or last year’s “Thelma” (proving that the endangered category is still not dead.

“Tuner” opens with business as usual, like Harry and Niki make rounds, calibrate personal pianos for rich New Yorkers. Most of their clients never play, treat their instruments such as superior furniture – although the piano needs an adjustment regardless (only one of the dozen intriguing facts about their overlooked profession). It is a highly specialized skill, but it does not prevent customers from looking for these musical repairs to fix the toilet or now resets the router.

The opening minutes of the film give us the taste of such humiliates, release Harry (which has a big mouth and even greater person) sucking most oxygen. Nicky indulges him, looking at Harry and his dedicated wife Marla (Tovah Feldshuh) as if they were his parents. He is a good child who discovers almost accidentally that his condition of hearing has upside down: ears are so sensitive, he manages to open the transmission safe in which Harry forgot to combine.

At the second job in an extravagant castle, he is upset with loud noise up. When Niki Snoops to investigate, think that three guys with foreign accents are trying to force themselves into the safe. Their leader, Uri (Lior raz), claims to be managed for the same client who handled Nikim, and a young man without being taken in their word, although it seems clear to us to steal.

Uri leaves Niki advice and suggests that they will have more easier money, if they will only lend their ears – an irresistible financial offer, given Harry’s accounts with a great hospital. There is something too handsome in this arrangement, and the audience would be right to be careful. But in Nika’s life there is not much, until he discovers Rutie (Havana Rose Liu), a talented music composition student who lives with a nickie once (Henry continues to talk about him as the best piano player ever heard).

Hoffman is not in the movie how much you can get you, but when it’s on the screen, the screenplay already full of heat and humor (which is Roher Ko-written with Robert Ramsai) Penke in the best possible way. Take a scene in which the faulty Facebook number is trying to play the match between Niki and Ruthie, and when Niki set up the concert of Piano Niki, and she tested his field – the Sexy Scene in which Harry’s Silent Type of Type was. It is at that time that Woodall’s star potential makes it clear, while rattling notes like his “rain” of Ko-stars.

As an attraction between Niki and Ruthie Flower, his participation in the so-called Security Team (which is stealing from their employers) becomes more complex. Although the cute guy, Niki brings some nice decisions with the costumes, which could prove dangerous if and when he decides to slaughter from the trial people of rich people. The “tuner” script is professionally structured in the way it sets certain elements, such as Niki’s reluctance to play the piano and challenge if Ruthie will be selected in a long time layer (Jean Reno in one by movie.

The challenge for “tuner”, at least it’s at least, is that it’s a little too mainstream for art sponsors. But it probably sounds too specialized for megaplek set, even if it is widely attracted to satisfy that audience, if it will only provide a chance. Something related to the Niki’s profession that – although it is left to fun facts and poetic monologues on the impossibility of perfection – hits people like Nis. Then, if there is one person who can make it sound great, it would be tuner.