The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner (L'accordeur, 2011) is a 14-minute French short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Olivier Treiner. Adrien had a promising career at the piano until a competition failure broke something that didn't come back. He took up tuning instead — and invented a small deception to go with it: he fakes blindness.

The act gets him past the front door and into the private lives of his clients. He hears things he shouldn't. Then he sees something he absolutely shouldn't. Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet and Grégory Gadebois play the scene that follows without a wasted line. Fourteen minutes that land like a full film. Stream The Piano Tuner online on iFILM.