Mark Kermode

But when Dustin Hoffman's character, Harry, falls ill, he needs money.

And so this side hustle of cracking safes proves useful.

The film also stars...

Havana Rose Liu, who we mentioned before, who's in Power Ballad as Ruthie, who is herself a talented pianist looking for a place as an assistant to a celebrated composer, played by Jean Reno, with whom Harry wants him to hook up.

Anyway, here is a clip.

Hey.

So last week, if you remember, we did One Frame Back and we did films about people with special sets of skills.

And somebody came up with the Harvey Keitel film Fingers.

So Tuna actually does have a, I hadn't seen Tuna at that point.

Tuna does have a thematic connection with Fingers.

Fingers is a 1978 James Toback film about a young pianist who is torn between music and crime and family ties.

And also with the Jacques Odier film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which is effectively a French language remake of Fingers.

The film does, Tuna, does have a very 70s feel about it in that basically it's a character drama that happens to be playing out within the framework of a crime thriller.

The plot is very twisty.

I mean, overly so, in my opinion, particularly in the third act in which the coincidences come very, very thick and fast.

But it's also functional because the crime narrative is really a device for allowing us to experience the world rather than being seen as heard by its central character, who has oversensitized hearing.

And therefore, it's putting you in his position and saying, this is what this world is.

seems like to him.

I think in the interview, Leo Woodall said, you know, the world, it's just too loud and it can seem like there's just too much of it.

And then you crank that up with this crime thriller narrative in which there genuinely is too much of everything.