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The Piano Teacher
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (131 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 2001
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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
- Participant:
- Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Isabelle Huppert, Susanne Lothar
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2001
- OCLC:
- 1293992298
- Publisher Number:
- 12814125 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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