Criterion Collection

Piano Teacher/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD

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Annie Girardot, Benjamin Lehmann, Benoît Magimel, Carol-Lynn Parente, Criterion Collection, Drama, Elfriede Jelinek, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Veit Heiduschka

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 it's stars at Cannes is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

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