La Pianiste [DVD] / an Austrian-French co-production, Wega Film, MK2 Productions and Les Films Alain Sarde, Arte France Cinéma ; producers, Marin Karmitz, Alain Sarde, & Veit Heiduschka ; writer and director, Michael Haneke.
Based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek. Special features: Interview with Isabelle Huppert; original theatrical trailer. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel.
Summary:
The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
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