Original title: La pianiste
Year: 2001
Country: France
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515203913
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: French - 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Age rating: R
Genre: Drama
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel
Director: Michael Haneke
Synopsis:
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 seeing 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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