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The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives cooped up with her mother. Her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths. Until one day, one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her.
25 June 1953, Trier-Eitelsbach, Germany
31 October 1946, Budapest, Hungary
22 June 1929, Berlin, Germany
13 April 1978, Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy
1958, Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
17 May 1954, Vienna, Austria
25 October 1931, Paris, France
1972, Mödling, Austria
17 September 1969, Rum, Tyrol, Austria
31 October 1966, Vienna, Austria
July 28, 2006
A film of Artaudian cruelty, and a boundary-breaker in the cinema's exploration of its own erotic and artisanal id.
February 13, 2003
If genital mutilation, rape, incest and twisted acts of sexual gratification are your thing, then this is the film for you. Any takers?
July 20, 2002
A striking, brilliant film with extraordinary performances -- and Huppert's acting is heartrending.
November 20, 2002
[Isabelle Huppert] outdoes herself.
February 10, 2010
[Huppert gives] the single finest performance I have ever seen her give, and therefore almost by default one of the best of the decade.
January 30, 2003
It's a harrowing, difficult film that's only for the most adventurous art-house movie fans.
September 19, 2002
It is depressing, ruthlessly pained and depraved, the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound.
August 13, 2004
A revolting and shocking work devoid of redemption and purpose.
June 21, 2002
Is like The Graduate remade by David Lynch; it's no picnic to watch, but you can't look away.
August 30, 2002
A gripping psychological thriller that, while lacking the power of Funny Games, is still the work of a master.
November 04, 2002
This is a penetrating, deeply disturbing examination of desire and loneliness, of desperation and self-denial.
August 16, 2002
It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one.