They Shot the Piano Player is ike Scarlett Johansson reading you a bedtime story: the tale itself is pretty interesting but not nearly as much as how it sounds.
TStPP is an animated docu-drama about the disappearance in 1976 of an exceptionally talented South American jazz pianist, Francisco Tenório Júnior. While the story itself, tragic though it is, struggles to fill the film's runtime.
Fortunately, to keep the film moving along, the story also plays numerous sidebars dealing with the history of bossa nova and including songs and/ or recorded interviews of jazz celebrities like João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Moura. Unfortunately for the film, Jeff Goldblum's voice as the narrator leading the investigation is so well known it serves mostly as a distraction from the story.
Still, if you like bossa nova, South America, and political intrigue maybe They Shot the Piano Player for you.
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They Shot the Piano Player is ike Scarlett Johansson reading you a bedtime story: the tale itself is pretty interesting but not nearly as much as how it sounds.
TStPP is an animated docu-drama about the disappearance in 1976 of an exceptionally talented South American jazz pianist, Francisco Tenório Júnior. While the story itself, tragic though it is, struggles to fill the film's runtime.
Fortunately, to keep the film moving along, the story also plays numerous sidebars dealing with the history of bossa nova and including songs and/ or recorded interviews of jazz celebrities like João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Moura. Unfortunately for the film, Jeff Goldblum's voice as the narrator leading the investigation is so well known it serves mostly as a distraction from the story.
Still, if you like bossa nova, South America, and political intrigue maybe They Shot the Piano Player for you.