La Pianiste (2001)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 131 minuten
Alternative title: The Piano Teacher
Country:
Austria / France / Germany
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and
IMDb score:
7,5 (76.467)
Releasedate: 5 September 2001
La Pianiste plot
"Perversion at its wicked best!"
Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a forty-year-old piano teacher who lives with her mother in an apartment in Vienna. The two have a love-hate relationship and are constantly at each other's hair. Erika's life seems as tightly organized as a Bach composition, but in reality she leads a double life. Behind her impassive appearance are complicated emotions, which she only manages to express at night in neighborhoods where she would not show herself during the day. When a visitor to one of Erika's piano recitals falls in love with her, he enrolls at the conservatory to be around her. However, the much younger Walter is unprepared for Erika's masochistic desires and complicated personality. A dangerous game ensues.
Actors and actresses
Erika Kohut
The Mother
Mrs. Schober
Dr. George Blonskij
Anna Schober
Mme Gerda Blonskij
Baritone
Man in drive-in
Naprawnik
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2292 messages
- 1559 votes
Simply put, a film about a woman who seeks happiness in love but fails because she clearly has issues (she still lives with her tyrannical mother and has emotional problems and sexual frustrations, expressing harshness and SM perversions) and no connection with the other can make. The film provides an interesting contrast between fantasy and reality (as in the failure of the SM experiments) and between the high ideal of Schubert's romantic music and the 'banal' of love in real life.
The strength of the film is above all the realism with which the weaknesses and insecurities of humans and the craziness of life are portrayed (which contrasts so strikingly with the idealized Hollywood films), the weak that the film is just a little too long and a weak has a tension.
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AnyaH
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- 422 messages
- 342 votes
A very good drama film. At the age of 40, Erika still lives with her tyrannical mother. An unhealthy mother-daughter relationship, in which mother is dominant. Erika puts her feelings in music, but does not show emotions in her personal life. She is, however, looking and this manifests itself in perverse sexual behavior and self-mutilation. Walter is impressed by her piano playing and becomes her student. She makes him an offer that he doesn't want to hear about. Ultimately, she drives him to despair, with Walter losing his temper. I think her fantasy and reality didn't quite match up. Also, I think Walter did this because he was so annoyed. The end is open and you have to guess how it ended.......
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Fisico (moderator films)
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- 10017 messages
- 5398 votes
Anyone who likes piano music, Bach and Schubert is in the right place here. Haneke's film La pianiste is permeated by classical music and has fine intermezzos. Inversely proportional to these heavenly notes is the character Erika Kohut, professor and piano teacher. A woman I couldn't understand, but especially for whom I could hardly muster sympathy. Very cold and distant, ruthless and not very empathetic. She plays on people and never fails to assert herself. Her relationship with her mother is also one with conflicting, but above all highly emotional, emotions.
Behind the rigid facade of this tough aunt, however, there is a certain uncertainty. She engages in self-mutation and has certain sexual fantasies. What I read above is correct. Despite Huppert's excellent acting, I am not entirely in agreement with the character's credibility. But there were several characters that raised my eyebrows. Take the mother of the girl Anna Schober who is pushed to become a piano virtuoso, but receives little emotional encouragement or pats on the back.
The ending was really open and I didn't see it coming. As if self-assured outside had to completely shed her tormented insides for the first time in public. When I look at my voices, a Haneke is often a hit or miss, this one is somewhere in the middle I think.
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