La pianiste / Wega Film, MK2 SA, Les Films Alain Sarde présentent une coproduction austro-française avec Arte France Cinéma ; un film de Michael Haneke ; scénario et réalisation, Michael Haneke ; producteur, Veit Heiduschka, Marin Karmitz, Alain Sarde.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 14 cm)
Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Köndgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss, William Mang. Title from screen credits. Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek. Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: new interview with director Michael Haneke; new interview with actress Isabelle Huppert; selected-scene commentary from 2001 featuring Huppert; behind-the-scenes footage featuring Haneke and Huppert; trailer; new English subtitle translation; container insert includes an essay "Bad Romances" by film scholar Moira Weigel.
Summary:
"In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music ... Erika [is] a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter, a student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life."--Container.
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