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 Walter's neck, behind his mother, in the mirror, looking at Erika.
He's looking at Erica from an almost evasive Erica's point of view. She's a paranoid woman. She completely ignores the feelings of the people around her and does what she wants to do, and what she does is so extreme. In the end, I'm still secretly worried about Walter. Isabelle portrays Erica's paranoia with her slender neck and tightly pursed mouth, but she is so weak and helpless when it comes to her own sexual needs. Such female patients are so rare, yet so vividly represented, that Isabelle is a genius.
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