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Grand Piano

2013

Eugenio Mira

Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Alex Winter, Kerry Bishé ...

5.1

8,518

Thriller. Mystery Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet. Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) is the most talented pianist of his generation, but has stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public for a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of an expectant audience, Tom ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Wood (...) keeps the action grounded in quasi-naturalistic melodrama rather than schlocky excess (...) The late arrival of John Cusack is an energy boost but hardly a surprise (...) Together they elevate a risibly ridiculous plot into something akin to a pulp symphony."	NEU
United States	Todd Gilchrist IndieWire	"'Grand Piano' turns the unlikeliest of scenarios into a riveting battle of wills (...) [it] expands the boundaries of single-location, real-time mysteries (...) with a brilliantly simple concept and nimble, elegant style."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Once you accept that 'Grand Piano' is B-movie pulp, there’s a certain amount of fun to be had"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s more like a billboard than a film. But the introductory scenes do have a certain enjoyable flair before it all collapses into gibberish (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Susan Wloszczyna rogerebert.com	"A tidy and tension-filled exercise in terror (...) It is easy to appreciate the grandly ambitious attempt at old-school filmmaking that Mira has somehow pulled off (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[An] appealingly absurd thriller (...) The execution, however, is akin to a less kinked-out Brian De Palma potboiler"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Mira] keeps you riveted even as the script, by Damien Chazelle, defies credulity at every turn (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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