“They Shot the Piano Player” is one of those movies that, to hear it described, shouldn’t work — but it really does. Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba’s film is a lot of things, almost all of them ...

The millennial begins pulling century-old innards from an upright beast. The piano’s action, with its felt hammers, is among the first parts to come out. “And that's the first time this has been out, ...