fter earning a 2023 best documentary Oscar for Navalny, Daniel Roher has pivoted to scripted storytelling with Tuner, a high-concept drama about a piano tuner drawn into safecracking, and with a will-they-or-won’t-they love story thrown into the fast-paced thriller for good measure.
Roher tells The Hollywood Reporter he faced a “very, very steep learning curve” with his narrative debut, after his real-life documentaries Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band and Navalny, about the late Russian opposition leader and political prisoner.
“Everyone really understood that this was my first movie … and they had seen my previous work and understood I was no slouch either,” he adds about directing Tuner, which centers on Niki White (Leo Woodall), a young man who has perfect pitch hearing but suffers from sensory overload due to an oversensitive hearing condition.
So, bent over piano keys or with an ear pinned to old spin-dial vaults,…
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