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Synopsis: Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz wants the work done quickly, in time for an opera he's staging for himself. Fernandez's attentions are captured by two women at the clinic, Assumpta, the clinic's manager, and Malvina van Stille, a patient who is also a superb singer. Fernandez works on the machines and is drawn to the women while Droz may be manipulating more than the automatons. Do emotions and choice play any part, or it is all opera?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
Year:
2005
99 min
Website
108 Views


And the unofficial?

I'm his living writing paper.

And this place?

It's an asylum.

Or rather a sanctuary,

for those who have undergone

the most fatal of traumas.

Those people you saw earlier,

we call them the gardeners.

But they are patients here,

who, thanks to Doctor Droz,

have been given back to themselves.

Oh, don't look so serious,

Mr. Fernandez.

After a while,

you get used to the confusion.

'On my way back from the first

automaton, I spied through the trees,

high up on the hillside,

what appeared to be

the ruins of a baroque grotto.'

Am I disturbing you, Mr. Felisberto?

It's real, isn't it?

Do you think it was planned?

No.

1755. It was the earthquake

in Lisbon.

And the tremors

were felt as far as Salamanca.

How would you know such a thing,

Mr. Felisberto?

It's my only gift.

I can hear anything

between a sneeze and infinity.

No doubt you come

from a long line of piano tuners.

For three centuries, we Fernandezes

have never had children.

Then... how were you born?

Ah, Doctor... that's the secret

of our sainted mothers.

'It seemed the Doctor and I

had reached an understanding.'

So we have destiny to thank

for permitting us to be

what we will become to each other.

'End of my first day

at the Villa Azucena.'

'To my surprise, I have entirely

retuned the first automaton.'

'The Doctor was right when he

admitted that he failed to predict

the effects of the sea air

upon his machines.'

'And then, I was close to fainting

from repeatedly holding my breath

while I scraped

an almost microscopic mould

off the most intricate

flywheel imaginable.'

'The Doctor's constructs are almost

frightening in their subtlety.'

'The machine revealed

a little row of singing teeth

that miraculously

still retain their pitch.'

'It's true, they are not pianos,

but I'm certainly

enjoying the privilege

of working on

these mechanical marvels.'

'He said not to call them toys,

but I still cannot quite see

their purpose.'

And was that singing

I heard last night?

You play the black keys

and I'll sing the white.

I think of you...

...as a powerful tree,

shivering in a stormy sky.

Very hard from the roots upwards,

which are plunged into

the quivering matter of life itself.

It rises, as if drawn

by the gulf of the heights.

And shudders, as the wind stirs

the leaves along its backbone...

...as my fingernails mount

the tender furrows of your back...

...from the dampness of your thighs...

...to the nape... of your neck.

'The next morning, as I was working

on the second automaton,

I'm thinking that I was

a little out of my depth.'

Here is the ormolu magnet

you asked for.

The Doctor told me to tell you

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