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Directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis fail to plumb their subject's frustrations or any other insightful biographical details.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier
Stefan Knüpfer's subtle charisma feels more suited to a beefily human New Yorker article than a documentary film.
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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
As Pianomania gradually reveals, Knüpfer is able to do this so well because he is as much of a crazed perfectionist as the pianists themselves, maybe even more so.
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It has a pleasing smallness -- it's cinematic chamber music -- that almost makes you overlook its inability to really explain its subject.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Although there's more romance in "Buck," a classic American survivor story in the triumphant individual vein, in Pianomania the very dry, very accomplished Mr. Knüpfer makes engaging company both because he keeps enviable company and because he's a full-on geek, though one possessed by pianos.
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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Pianomania is the thoroughly apt title for a thoroughly enjoyable documentary.