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Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged 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 young 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.
*Best Actor and Best Actress Awards (Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel) - Cannes Film Festival 2001
Director : Michael Haneke
Country : France, Austria, Germany
Year : 2001
Distributor : Janus Films
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La pianiste
Genre
Cinema • Fiction
Duration
2:10
Additional information
Original French version, English subtitles
La pianiste
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La pianiste
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