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Grand Piano

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A concert pianist who has stage fright finds a threatening note written on his sheet music just moments before a performance.
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Grand Piano is so tense in its best moments -- and appealingly strange overall -- that it remains rewarding in spite of its flaws.

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Jenni Miller Film.com Director Eugenio Mira manages to keep Grand Piano visually stimulating even when writer Damien Chazelle's script gets silly. Rated: 7/10 Jun 9, 2017 Full Review Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Entertainingly preposterous ... Rated: 3/5 Sep 21, 2014 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian It's a crazy if occasionally engaging mess. Rated: 2/5 Sep 18, 2014 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh After accepting the absurdity of the premise, you're given a taut and well-paced throwback thriller. Rated: 4/5 Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Dan Brightmore NME (New Musical Express) It's a one trick pony but a stylishly orchestrated one. Rated: 3/5 May 26, 2021 Full Review Avaryl Halley Movie Bitches This movie is insane. May 26, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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David B A movie that should never have been made. Have any of those involved ever been to a classical music concert? I've never been to one as cheesy as this. Preposterous script, a poseur of a conductor conducting crap, pretentious music and a plot that beggars belief. And, as for the "wife" who is persuaded to burst into song at the end of the concert, words fail me. A film for morons. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/19/23 Full Review Piotr W One of the most fun movies i've had in a while. Had few flaws, few plot choices that im not satisfied with, and just mistakes like the last, the hardest song to play on the Piano was not actualy that impressive (im not a pianist so it is just a bad opinion maybe). But overall - i had fun. And this is most important thing while watching a movie. I couldn't turn my eyes away and i had troubles with blinking sometimes. Few design choices make this film great - the score of this movie is played by the orchestra on the stage, so the music is a part of the world and it is really fun if you think about it while watching. I cant forget the transition from the shot of someone's neck being cut to the woman playing cello. I loved it. I loved the vast sea of emotions portrayed by the main actor. I loved the conductor character that was really fun and i loved how they did show the concert, with more fun than you see in most movies. One of few movies where the good guy is actually more fun to watch than the bad guy and i love this movie for that. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review spencer p With a smart, Classical music-inspired script that only Damien Chazelle could write, beautiful cinematography and impressive piano work from Elijah Wood, Grand Piano is a short, top-notch suspense thriller. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review ahmad m Just wonderful. A timeless masterpiece. Both of them. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Daniel W Grand Piano is so unabashedly ludicrous it is impossible to take seriously. But if you can accept that, it is fun and different. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/04/22 Full Review Audience Member The movie is called "Grand Piano." It involves a world class concert pianist playing a very complex piece of music with a symphony orchestra, in front of thousands of spectators. With that in mind, how and why on God's green Earth would the creative staff of this picture choose to have the alleged music in the climactic scene have such fundamental flaws? What poor Elijah Wood went through acting (no, really, you did great, Elijah-- I'm an actor as well as a pianist! Wonderful performance!) is completely and entirely eclipsed by what they got wrong, which is as follows: 1. What Elijah Wood plays does not match what the piano is actually heard to play in the live track. It's not even close. 2. What is actually heard to play in the live track does not match the sheet music on Elijah Wood's piano's desk. It's not even close. 3. The sheet music on Elijah Wood's piano's desk does not match what he appears to be playing visually. IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE. Honestly, do they think the MILLIONS OF ACTUAL MUSICIANS WHO WATCH THEIR MOVIES just... won't notice? It happens so often that it's refreshing to see when they actually DO get it right. And yes, we ALWAYS notice. The music, the act of creating the music, is very important to us. Please remember that. Two stars, solely for Elijah Wood. Seriously, it would be no stars at all without him. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A concert pianist who has stage fright finds a threatening note written on his sheet music just moments before a performance.
Director
Eugenio Mira
Producer
Rodrigo Cortés, Adrián Guerra, Juan Carlos Caro, Ricardo García Arrojo, Rosa Pérez, Pepe Torrescusa
Screenwriter
Damien Chazelle
Distributor
Magnet Releasing
Production Co
Nostromo Canarias 1 AIE, Nostromo Pictures, Grand Piano Productions, Solution Entertainment Group, Atresmedia Televisión
Rating
R (Some Language)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 7, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$22.4K
Runtime
1h 30m
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