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The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)

Isabelle Huppert (Actor), Annie Girardot (Actor), Michael Haneke (Director, Writer) Rated:
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3.7 out of 5 stars 116 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel
  • Directors: Michael Haneke
  • Writers: Michael Haneke, Elfriede Jelinek
  • Producers: Christine Gozlan, Michael Katz, Veit Heiduschka, Yvon Crenn
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Kino International
  • DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
  • Run Time: 125 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006LPER
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,331 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA masterpiece of twisted cinema
By Nowhere Man VINE VOICE on April 14, 2003
Format: DVD
When I first heard about Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher", about a sexually repressed instructor at the Vienna Conservatory, I thought it was exactly the kind of movie I didn't want to see. In a world awash in pop music, South Park and Britney videos, how could a film about the stultifyingly uptight classical music world have *any* relevance for a post-modern, post-everything film buff (even if he is American?) Didn't Bergman tread this ground 40 years ago? Didn't Bunuel make savage fun of the hypocrisy of bourgeois sexual respectability in "Belle de Jour" (1966)? Wasn't Haneke a little behind the times?
Walking - or I should say staggering - out of the theater 2.5 hours later, I was humbled by the scope of Haneke's and Huppert's achievement. Rarely have I seen a film both so clear-eyed about sexual psychosis and yet so compassionate as well. Isabelle Huppert, who probably wasn't nominated for an Oscar only because the film can be so off-putting to some, gives what can only be described as an intense performance. Her clenched face and the darting movements of her eyes reveal more about her character - her inner rage, her self-hatred - than most actors can achieve with sheets and sheets of dialouge. That's the essence of the film, everything is very formally *controlled* - so that when violence, self-inflicted or otherwise, breaks out, it is startling because it emerges from such as civilized veneer.
If the point of the film were to demonstrate the High Culture spiritually deforms those who engage in it (and I don't think it does), the film would have minimal interest. High culture has been on the defensive so long, it doesn't need to be blamed for driving Isabelle Huppert nuts as well.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHuppert magnificent in the title role of The Piano Teacher
By Russell Fanelli TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 22, 2003
Format: DVD
The Piano Teacher shows us a few days in the life of a disturbed woman who is both victim and victimizer. Isabelle Huppert briliantly plays the part of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano teacher at a music college in Vienna. Annie Giradot is no less effective as her domineering and watchful mother. The two women abuse one another physically and verbally. This relationship is long standing and comes to a crisis as the film progresses.
Erika is unable to break the bonds that attach her to her mother. Instead, like a child who has never grown up, she wants to please her mother, but is driven to act out her own fantasies secretly. Her mother appears to be unaware of the deep seated repression that is consuming her daughter. What she does see is an angry, hateful person who lies to her and deceives her frequently.
Erika's sexual frustration takes the form of physical and pschological self-hate. She visits porn shops to degrade herself and she mutilates her body to distract her from the intense psychological pain she suffers constantly.
At school her anger takes the form of verbal abuse to her students who are unable to achieve the artistic integrity she demands. What appears to be an inflated sense of her own importance as an artist masks her frustration at being second-rate. She is not good enough to be recognized as an artist in her own right. Her hatred of herself and her inadequacy as an artist prompt her to strike out at students and colleagues alike.
Into her seething cauldron of despair comes a young engineering student, Walter Klemmer, wonderfully played by Benoit Maginel, who wants to study Schubert with her. At first she refuses him, but pressure by the school to accept him forces her to work with him.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe audience is plunged into a very unsettling world
By Linda Linguvic HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on September 2, 2002
In French, with English subtitles, this film is a risky psychological drama about a well-respected music professor at a prestigious Vienna music school. She's in her forties, wears no makeup, keeps her hair in a bun and dresses in the plainest of clothes. As a teacher, she is severe and demanding. She and her mother live together and their constant arguments include slaps and tears and reconciliation. Her secret life, however, includes pornography, voyeurism and genital self-mutilation. When an attractive young man starts to pursue her romantically, she shocks him with her perversions. How this all plays out is fascinating and the eventual conclusion is inevitable, but along the way the audience is plunged into this very unsettling world.
Isabelle Huppert's performance as the teacher is absolutely magnificent. There are a lot of close-ups of her unsmiling freckled face and dark opaque emotionless eyes. There is a vague reference to her father being in an insane asylum; other than that there is no back-story to help us understand her. Benoit Magimel, cast as her young suitor, has a difficult role as well. During the course of the film, we watch him change before our eyes. All the other characters are also well cast and give outstanding performances.
The director, Michael Haneke, kept the tension and erotic undercurrent strong throughout. There is a lot of classical music and scenes of recitals and piano lessons in a very rigid and upscale world. And then there are those scenes targeted to make the audience squirm in their seats. When all the elements are put together, the results are a film that will long haunt my memories.
The Piano Teacher is not for everyone. But for those adventurous few who are willing to experience the different and dramatic, don't miss it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsThe Piano Teacher

A repressed, tightly controlled professor at a music conservatory (Isabelle Huppert) meets a self-confident young man (Benoit Magimel) who thinks that he is just the one to unlock... Read more

Published 4 months ago by David Bonesteel
3.0 out of 5 starsBe prepared for odd

While I appreciate independent foreign films, this was difficult for me to sit through. The pain this woman self-inflicts in so many ways while being a respected piano teacher is... Read more

Published 8 months ago by N. Lester
1.0 out of 5 starsNot Good

I was not expecting much and that is what I got.

Published 12 months ago by Marcus J
4.0 out of 5 starsthis teacher is a rough grader

Great performance by Huppert but the end of the movie was abrupt and seemed forced.

Published 13 months ago by Stephen G.
5.0 out of 5 starsDepressing… but still excellent

Art is art, what can I say! I love Isabelle Huppert and all her movies. She is a genius. But the movie was sad and depressing… almost typical of French movies, stereotypically... Read more

Published 18 months ago by Ibrahim
5.0 out of 5 starsA great film! Very courageous project for Heneke to bring ...

A great film! Very courageous project for Heneke to bring to the screen Huppert is nothing short of breathtaking in the tile role. Annie Giaradot as her mother..unforgettable. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Daniel G. Madigan
1.0 out of 5 starsKino Video (Unrated) DVD

Another terrible release by Kino. Bad transfer presented in non-anamorphic widescreen. Buy only if you can tolerate that kind of amateurism in your movie collection.

Published on February 27, 2014 by ES Blofeld
2.0 out of 5 starsSave your time, play a game, take a nap, read a book, close your eyes

The two stars were for the acting, and all other components except the content. Not sure why anyone would like to watch such sick and disturbing movie, to prove what? Read more

Published on October 8, 2013 by LaLectora
3.0 out of 5 starsDemons

A fifty-ish music professor has an impossible combination of mental, emotional, and sexual dysfunctions. Read more

Published on August 26, 2013 by mr. contrarian
1.0 out of 5 starsa fillum for idiots

this is a masterpiece of boring inane junk posing as an existential treatise on love and sex. how anyone could find it remotely interesting is totally incomprehensible. Read more

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