Amira Casar, Assumpta Serna, Cesar Saracho

On the eve of her wedding beautiful opera singer Malvina Van Stille is mysteriously killed and abducted away from her fiance, a famous conductor, and taken to a fantasy island ruled by the malevolent ...( read more  read more... )Dr. Droz. The piano tuner Filiberto arrives to repair Droz's strange collection of automata, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Malvina's fiance. Passions and memories are stirred in the living dead Malvina and Filiberto tries to rescue her, but Droz has plans to include Filiberto in his plans... and trap him within his perverse universe.

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43% liked it

40 critics

Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Release Date: November 17, 2006

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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007

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  • December 20, 2006
    Absolutely hypnotic and totally difficult.
  • September 25, 2009
    Utterly dark, disturbing, nonsensical and beautiful.
  • April 18, 2009
    Definitely beautiful to look at, deep in intentions, wonderful music and feel, lost amidst a story that can never quite be followed. I'm sorry but i was quite lost.
  • March 1, 2009
    pretentious. it's a pity, i really had my hopes on this.
  • February 20, 2009
    Really well filmed, very dark flick.
  • February 4, 2009
    singular y maravilloso..
  • September 15, 2007
    I am forced to give it a half-star! Sheesh!!!
  • August 17, 2007
    another dark fairytale. Just my cup of tea!
  • August 10, 2007
    I found this film breath-taking. Beautiful images and sets, stunning puppetry and editing, amazing music and a story so skiilfully crafted and planed, it left me in awe, Beauty and the Beast. I love this film a lot and was glad to see it on the big screen, will definitely get the...( read more) DVD.
  • August 9, 2007
    utterly Droz (droll & gross). Only sat through it hoping it'd be mysteriously saved in the end. It wasn't.

Critic Reviews


January 19, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

It's a hauntingly effective, poetic mood piece but an exasperating drama. full review

December 1, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The whole movie feels filmed through the wrong end of a stereopticon: stiff, fascinating, riddled with secrets it doesn't care to divulge. full review

August 23, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Snow globe visions and gnarly mouth nightmares swirl together in this darkly lyrical fantasia. full review

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