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The Piano Teacher

Drama Romance

2001, Movie, 2h 11min

In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, THE PIANO TEACHER—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

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Reviews

Critic Alan Morrison

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...Isabelle Hupert is simply astonishing in the lead role.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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Huppert is indeed extraordinary to watch as her face and body express so much while also retaining a certain inscrutability.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Michael Thomsen

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Måske MIchael Haneke's bedste film... men det er 'nasty stuff', så kun for folk der også kan lide Lars Von Trier og den slags ekstrem art-house.

3 years ago

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The Piano Teacher tells the story of Erika Kohut , a middle-aged piano teacher who leads a repressed life with her dominating mother . Erika finds solace in voyeurism , sadomasochistic fantasies ,and self-mutilation. She meets Walter Klemmer , a young aspiring engineer who shares her love for classical music . Walter's passion for piano playing sparks Erika's interest , but their relationship quickly turns dark as Erika's masochistic desires take center stage . The film explores themes of sexual repression , loneliness , and control as Erika and Walter engage in increasingly disturbing activities . Can their relationship survive the darkness that lies within them ?

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