The Piano Teacher
Dir: Michael HanekeCast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel
131mins 2001 France | Austria | Germany Certificate: 18 French | German
Subtitled The Piano Teacher
Part of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory.
When one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered - unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.
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