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'Navalny' director hits right notes in Sundance fiction debut
Daniel Roher's fiction debut blends romance and thriller elements inspired by a real piano tuner, starring Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall, premiered at Sundance.
- On Thursday at Sundance's opening day, Academy Award-winning documentary director Daniel Roher premiered his fiction debut, Tuner, in Park City, Utah, starring Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall.
- Roher said he fell into a creative rut and, after a chance encounter with a piano tuner, asked `I actually fell into this little rut... I didn't feel like making anything`, then developed the story.
- Central to the film is Nikki's oversensitive hearing, which forces him to stop playing and later enables a gang of thieves to use him to crack safes, endangering his relationship with a composition student played by Havana Rose Liu.
- On set, Roher said the experience was fascinating as he worked with actors for the first time after years in documentary, and Dustin Hoffman helped ease his transition to feature filmmaking.
- Part odd-couple, part romance and part thriller, Tuner mixes these dynamics as Roher's answer to the creative 'Now what?' question and explores themes: atrophy and entropy.
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