The Cat Piano (2009) User Reviews

Noir

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 5 April 2019]

This has so much atmosphere and a sad and dark story to match. It may seem absurd to some, but the point is that cats are music and music thrived. But some entity took the cats for his own purposes. The poetic narration is the stuff that the 1940's black and white films were made of. I really enjoyed this and I am not all that fond of cats.

nice

[Kirpianuscus · 12 June 2017]

for fans of cats and jazz and poetry - an inspired choice. because it is one of short films who seems be a drop of perfume. nothing more. nothing new. a voice. animation. a story - old and dark, few mystery crumbs and a lovely story about a circle of music, decadence and solidarity. result - nice entertainment. not memorable but nice. and this could be a precious virtue. for remind a blue state and the flavor of poetry.

An elegant cat-noir animation

[Rectangular_businessman · 9/10 · 20 August 2023]

The animation is simply gorgeous, having an excellent atmosphere and a lovely use of color from beginning to end.

The "film-noir" atmosphere was captured perfectly well here, both visually and in the narration by Nick Cave.

Honestly, it's a sad thing many people seem to believe traditional animation is dead, since stuff like this simply couldn't be replicated using CGI. I mean, while CGI has its own strenghts, and personally I'm not biased towards its use, it definately wouldn't have the same effect shorts like this has.

A wonderfully stylish mystery tale, far more deserving of appreciation. Totally recommended.

8.5/10.

Kitten mystery

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 14 March 2016]

"The Cat Piano" is an Australian, 8.5-minute short film from 7 years ago and the star here is clearly the narrator, Australian (not a coincidence for sure) musician Nick Cave. Writer and director Ari Gibson and Eddie White have not really been too prolific before or after their probably most famous work, this animated short film here. Sadly, I did not enjoy it too much in terms of the pretentious poem we hear or the all-over-the-place animation we see. Cave's voice adds a nicely atmospheric touch to it, but that really cannot make-up for the massive flaws in writing here. If you still enjoyed it, let me recommend you the German animated feature film "Felidae", which reminded me a bit of it. I do not recommend "The Cat Piano". Thumbs down.