Mark Kermode

Okay, go ahead, yes.

Low-key crime thriller from Canadian co-writer and director Daniel Roa, who made the Oscar-winning Doc Navalny, which you talked about in the interview.

Leo Woodall is the tuner of the title.

Just to be clear, if you're listening to this, T-U-N-E-R, not T-U-N-A, although there is a gag about that.

A young man named Nicky, who had to give up a promising career as a pianist,

due to the fact that he suffered from hyperacusis, which is hypersensitivity to sound.

And this was not something that I knew about beforehand, but the film does a pretty good job of explaining what it means.

It means that he's got these, he has to wear these earpieces all the time in order to blank out the sound because effectively the world is too loud for him.

And as a result of it, he can't play the piano anymore because the piano would be too loud.

So the condition has stopped him leading a normal life in inverted commas, unless he wears ear protectors all the time, but it has made him an extremely good piano tuner.

And as it happens, a deft safe cracker, because he can hear the tumblers in, certainly an old fashioned safe,

He can hear them falling.

This trick is very useful, particularly for Nicky's mentor.

And I mean, Dustin Hoffman is effectively a father figure, isn't he?

His memory is failing.

He forgets the combination to his safe.

Nicky can open it.

He can listen to the clicks.

This also attracts the attention of Yuri, who is the leader of a gang of thieves, who sees Nicky's safe cracking in action and goes, we need that guy.

And at first, Nicky isn't interested.