The Piano Teacher (2001)

20012h 53mdir. Michael HanekeFrenchFrance, Austria, Germanydrama filmromance film

Note: this print runs 173 minutes against a recorded 131 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Anna Sigalevitch, Eva Green, Georg Friedrich, Udo Samel

Directed by Michael Haneke

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The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The (Female) Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek. It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel). The film was a co-production between France and Austria. Haneke was given the opportunity to direct after previous attempts to adapt the novel by filmmakers Valie Export and Paulus Manker failed for financial reasons.

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