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  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 26 m
Piaffe

Summary Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures an unas...

Written By: Thais Guisasola

  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 26 m

Piaffe

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures an unas...

Written By: Thais Guisasola

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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91
Aug 16, 2022
Nothing is phoned in here, everything is calibrated to a unique frequency so that even though you can trace the influence of Bette Gordon, Catherine Breillat, and Lucille Hadzhihalillovic, “Piaffe” is its own playful and majestic beast.
By Sophie Monks Kaufman FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 17, 2023
It rewards the attention of a committed voyeur, which all proper cineastes and many of our best provocateurs are anyway. The pinched of mind and the humorless need not bother. Invariably more welcome (one imagines Oren thinking) are those who enjoy their senses and perspectives pried open while their heads get a thorough scratching.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 24, 2023
Its experimental style, marked by long, dialogue-free stretches, color flares and pristine sound effects, can seem calculated and off-putting, the narrative slight and dramatically slack. Yet the film’s provocations have a playfulness and generosity that are enormously appealing.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 24, 2023
It’s a weird movie, to be sure, but never an off-putting one. It’s also one that sometimes feels like a chimera itself, pushing various genres and ideas together without fully synthesizing them. But it’s consistently beautiful, watchable, and a truly memorable debut for Oren.
By Christian Gallichio FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 23, 2023
This is the kind of movie Piaffe is: one that mostly poises its absurd surreality at the edge of what’s plausible in contemporary everyday life until it moves into unprecedented physical mutations.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 23, 2023
Piaffe is an enrapturing, ultimately inconsistent work where two halves that challenge in different ways don’t entirely add to an effective whole. Yet the journey itself more than compensates for where it eventually lands.
By Alistair Ryder FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 25, 2023
The fact that it purports to function as a not-so-thinly-veiled parable about the limitlessness of sexuality, gender fluidity, and the marginalized makes it that much more unbearable.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Schuldenberg Films
Release Date Aug 25, 2023
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Achtung Berlin
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cork International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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