Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. I will not spoil this big twist, I’ll just say, this is the twist that would happen if Tommy Wiseau tried to create an homage to both M. Don’t get me wrong, I’d been wondering if this twist was going to happen for a while by this point, but the way it was handled left much to be desired. If everything else wasn’t already muddled enough, the movie throws a huge third-act twist at the audience that left me scratching my head. If the filmmaker doesn’t know, then the audience certainly doesn’t either. I’m not sure if Keeve had a concrete idea of how, why, and when Jason’s powers work and it shows. source: Dark Star Picturesįrom what I can gather, it has something to do with both healing, but also time travel. What his powers actually do is another matter. At first, the audience is led to believe that his powers only work when he plays the piano, but several other scenes contradict this and make it seem as if he can perform magic at will. He then says something about musical spheres and orbs and the universe while we see some stock footage of the solar system. He explains to Brandon that when he was 12 he had a near-death experience and then was magically healed. You might be wondering how Jason has these magical powers.
The fact that Brandon just automatically believes it is also confounding. This plot development is not only perplexing, but completely out of left field. Yup, the movie now introduces to us the idea that Jason has magical powers with his piano playing.
This is a movie set in Los Angeles, so the automatic assumption would be earthquake, but when Brandon checks his phone and sees no news about an earthquake, he quickly jumps to the conclusion that Jason’s playing caused the quake. During a nighttime private rehearsal between Jason and Brandon, the earth begins to shake violently underneath them while Jason plays piano. Throw in Some MagicĪnd that brings me to the most confusing aspect of this movie. Mystery can be great, but here it’s just too muddled and convoluted to make any sense. The constant flashing back to this accident only adds to the murkiness of the movie. Based on photographs in Isabella’s room, we learn that she used to be a ballerina, and while playing for the ballet class, Jason imagines her there. I can only extrapolate that this accident is the personal tragedy that Jason experienced, and that the car crash led to his divorce and his daughter being paralyzed. The movie continually has flashbacks to a bad car accident involving Jason, his ex-wife Karen ( Jeanette Driver), and his two children, Isabella ( Juliet Doherty) and Max ( Christopher Pawl). I am now going to try to unpack the rest of the movie, so bear with me, it gets confusing. After a particularly bad fight in which Adam beats up Brandon, Brandon seeks safety and comfort in Jason’s home, and arms.įrom that very basic plot description, you’d think this movie is a pretty straight-forward drama about two troubled men who find love with each other. There, he meets, and falls in love with 27-year-old dancer Brandon Wykowski ( Ricky Palomino), who is in an abusive relationship with the hotheaded, temperamental, all-around unsympathetic, Adam ( Aaron Cavette). Jason Holden ( Keeve), a man in his 50s who, after a personal tragedy starts working as an accompanist at a local ballet school. The movie, written, directed, produced, composed by, and starring Frederick Keeve, centers on Dr. The Accompanist is a romantic drama and magical mystery film. In 2000, he won second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, and in 2001 he took first place in the Concours des Grand Amateurs de Piano in France.Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films that gave their characters a romantic happily-ever-after. In recent years he has performed in Russia and France, and played several solos with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra. Steve is a regular accompanist at Montclair State University, working with the choirs and in voice studios. In 2011–12 he also appeared on the Stamford Symphony recital series, performed Grammy Award-nominated composer Robert Aldridge’s Piano Trio, and toured in Austria. In 2012 Steve was a featured artist in Dessoff’s first Midwinter Festival, performing Robin Holloway’s Gilded Goldbergs at Weill Recital Hall with Catherine Venable. Conductors he has collaborated with include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Jäarvi, Sir Neville Marriner, Gerard Schwarz, and Maxim Shostakovich. He has played celesta with the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall piano, harpsichord, and organ with Dessoff and synthesizer with the Moody Blues. Steven Ryan has been Dessoff’s accompanist and featured keyboard soloist since 1997.
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