Le Dernier Piano

Original title: Broken Keys

2021
1h 50m

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Trying to escape his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where music has been banned, a musician embarks on a journey to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by extremists.Trying to escape his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where music has been banned, a musician embarks on a journey to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by extremists.Trying to escape his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where music has been banned, a musician embarks on a journey to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by extremists.

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6.5/10

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Awards
- 3 wins & 11 nominations total

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Tarek Yaacoub

Karim

Rola Beksmati

Samar
(as Rola Baksmati)

Mounir Maasri

Abou Moussa

Ibrahim El Kurdi

Ziad

Julian Farhat

Abdallah

Sara Abi Kanaan

Maya

Badih Bou Chakra

Joseph
(as Badih Abou Chakra)

Gabriel Yammine

Mounir

Hassan Mrad

Akram

Adel Karam

Tarek

Fadi Abi Samra

Bassam

Layla Qamari

Rasha
(as Layla Kamari)

Michel Adabachi

Ibrahim

Saeed Sarhan

Ahmad
(as Said Serhan)

Rodrigue Sleiman

Riad

Carlos Abou Sleiman

Religious Police

Sakr Al-Baini

Sami

Anthony Deek

Frias

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10randafarah

A masterpiece!

The movie "Broken Keys" is a powerful representation of the fight between life and war, freedom and imprisonment, music and silence, dreams and nightmares...

Very well directed, amazing shots with excellence in production, Jimmy Keyrouz rocked it with his meticulous mind every single detail... All actors, especially Tarek Yaacoub and Rola Beksmati had a powerful presence, Even the secondary roles were taken by top-notch actors like Badeeh Abou Chakra and Adel Karam...

A movie that won't keep you indifferent... A movie about Music, Arts & Culture and how the instinct of LIFE is fighting over DEATH, war and destruction...

A definite must watch!

9Critic-8

Short Redhead Reel Reviews (Wendy Schadewald)

Jimmy Keyrouz's powerful, award-winning, factually inspired, moving, gut-wrenching, well-written, tension-filled, heartbreaking, violent, 110-minute, 2020 film based on his 2016 short movie Nocturne in Black in which a talented, endangered pianist (Tarek Yaacoub), who lives in a bombed-out building with his wannabe lawyer cousin (Sara Abi Kanaan) in a war-ravaged, ISIS-controlled Syrian town where music is forbidden, decides to fix his mother's bullet-ridden piano with the help of a Kurdish resistance soldier (Rola Beksmati) to sell to his shop owner boss (Mounir Maasri) to earn money to pay a smuggler so that he can hopefully twinkle the keys in an European orchestra and to help a resilient, orphaned boy (Ibrahim El Kurdi) have a life he deserves while working with the underground resistance to defeat terrorizing Islamist extremist fighters (Julian Farhat, et al.).

9georges-nahas

A Piano facing the war

Broken Keys by Jimmy Keyrouz is wonderful and very well made. Cinematography and directing are at their best! The actors did a great job portraying the atrocities of the Syrian war and the terrorism that frightened the country. It's a story of hope portrayed by a piano, by the love of music not matter what! The movie wouldn't be complete without the music of the great Gabriel Yared! He doesn't disappoint!

9pmdahrouge

Beautiful

Not to be missed. Broken keys is filled with beauty, hope and resistance, in the face of obscurantism. A breathtaking journey, wonderfully served by performing actors embodying rich characters, highly convincing. A beautiful music facing the machine of war...