The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

  • Director: Michael Haneke
  • Writer: Michael Haneke,Elfriede Jelinek
  • Countries of origin: France, Austria, Germany
  • Language: French, German
  • Release date: September 5, 2001
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: La pianista
  • "La pianist" is a 131-minute feature film co-produced by Germany, Poland, France, and Austria. The film was directed by Michael Hanek, starring Isabelle Huppert , Benoît Magimel , Annie Girardot , Susanne Lothar , Udo Samel, etc., and was released in France on May 14, 2001.
    The film is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Elfriede Jelinek . It tells the story of a female La pianist, who is nearly 40 years old and who has been abstinent for a long time   .

    Details

    • Release date September 5, 2001
    • Filming locations Vienna, Austria
    • Production companies ARTE, Arte France Cinéma, Bavaria Film International

    Box office

    Budget

    ATS 70,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,012,069

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $29,671

    Gross worldwide

    $6,766,381

    Movie reviews

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    • By Brittany 2022-08-09 11:03:30

      The Piano Teacher--The Story of Isabelle and Erica

      It is also a female pianist who looks at the problem from the perspective of a woman and is also a surly female pianist. The French piano teacher and the Australian piano teacher have few similarities. Actress Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress at Cannes that year for her performance in La Pianiste, while the cute, bright-blond boy also won Best Actor. Almost all of the director's perspective in this film is from the back of...

    • By Karlee 2022-04-23 07:02:44

      need to be understood

      Men's needs and women's needs are different.
      A man does not really understand the needs of the woman he needs, and one-sidedly emphasizes the dissatisfaction he feels. A woman needs to be understood, and only by understanding can she recognize her thoughts and actions, and know what she needs. . . .
      And when a woman really falls in love with this man who doesn't understand her, she realizes that what she needs is not what he can bring her. . . .
      Poor woman, poor love. . . . In...

    • By Brice 2022-04-23 07:02:44

      I only see the metamorphosis after repression

      I've only seen the perversion after repression.
      To be honest, this is a film that makes me feel sick, not that it was badly made. It can be said that the director's filming is very good and in place, and it feels very real, but it is this kind of realness that makes me sick and almost collapsed.
      First, Alizee beats her mother, second, self-abuses, and second, sexually abuses others, including her mother. There is also why the male protagonist likes such an ugly woman. Anyway, I think...

    • By Viviane 2022-04-23 07:02:44

      The real piano teacher in the absurd


       
      Best Actress at Cannes.
      Not to mention, Isabelle Huppert's acting skills are really superb.
      Zero expression, but so real.
      Even if she is crazy, is this handsome, affectionate at first, cruel at the end more selfish?
      Can't love her respectfully even if she's crazy?
      Men and women must have very different positions watching the film.
      The letter, the mother-daughter scene, on the ice rink, the fight scene, the final decision.
      The process is so natural....

    • By Cordie 2022-04-23 07:02:44

      The original is better than the movie

      1. The mother is unanimously recognized as a figure in national life and family life that combines the inquisitor of the Century Inquisition and the orderer of the shooting.

      2. The tram, like the common phrase Amen at the end of prayers, is sure to follow.

      3. Erica picked up a piece of Kleenex soaked with semen and hardened from the ground and put it on her nose, she took a deep breath, sucked, watched, and wasted some of the time of her life.

      4. It is painful to...

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    • By Faustino 2023-09-14 20:21:11

      twisted personality, twisted...

    • By Wilfrid 2023-07-12 14:34:15

      The second time I watched Haneke's film, the substitution of psychoanalysis, the metaphor of the relationship between the sexes, the analysis of alienation and morbid psychology, and the cold narrative style, it was like a paper. It's not a pleasant or moving film, but I still appreciate the spiritual life of the European middle class, and I adore Erika's blurted out psychoanalysis of Schubert's work, so I watch it with...

    • By Ruthie 2023-07-11 11:55:29

      Really depressing...

    • By Xzavier 2023-07-07 01:51:21

      That part of the toilet is really a classic piece that will last...

    • By Zane 2023-07-06 12:46:05

      Haneke and Huppert's piano duo. She treats desire like a fascist treats prisoners of war, without love, only to be...

    Movie plot

    Erika, who is in her forties, is a stern La pianist who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory, and is known for being strict with her students. She lives with her elderly but controlling mother and is extremely disciplined by her mother. Growing up underneath, it led to the repression of contradictory desires and dissatisfaction in the future, trapped in this relationship, the two women tortured each other and quarreled day after...
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    "La pianist" severely analyzes the dark side of a female pianist's heart and brain, calmly and compassionately depicting the heroine and the individual psychopaths of the characters around her (especially the sexual sores and dark scars). Strange, spicy, vivid and extraordinary. The palpable mother-daughter relationship in the film is more provocative due to the sophisticated skills of the screenwriter and director in mastering the...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      The Mother: Good evening, child.

      Erika Kohut: Evening, mama.

      The Mother: [sarcastically] Home already? I'm so happy.

      Erika Kohut: I'm going.

      The Mother: Not so fast.

      Erika Kohut: Please. Leave me be. I'm tired.

      The Mother: I can quite believe it. Your last pupil left 3 hours ago. Might I know where you've been all this time?

      Erika Kohut: [trying to go to her room] Please.

      The Mother: No, you don't. Not until you tell me.

      Erika Kohut: I went for a walk. Do you mind? I spent 8 hours in my cage. I was tired and needed some air.

      The Mother: For 3 hours?

      Erika Kohut: Absolutely.

    • Walter Klemmer: [reading the teacher's letter] "On the contrary, if I beg, tighten my bonds, please. Adjust the belt by at least 2 or 3 holes. The tighter the better. Then, gag me with some stockings I will have ready. Stuff them in so hard that I'm incapable of making any sound. Next, take off the blindfold, please, and sit down on my face and punch me in the stomach to force me to thrust my tongue in your behind." Is this supposed to be serious? You're making fun of me, aren't you? You want a slap?

    • Walter Klemmer: Just then, I was under your window and I was jerking off. That's what you want, huh? You want to...

      [making obscene signs]

      Walter Klemmer: is that it? You're a witch, a pervert! You want to give everyone your illness, don't you? Not me!

      Erika Kohut: I did apologise.

      Walter Klemmer: Fuck your stupid apologies!