Piano Teacher, The

Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2001
Country: Germany | Poland | France | Austria
Language(s): French
Subtitles: English
Length: 129 mins
Format: PAL | R2
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.85: 1
Certificate: 18
Alternate Title: La Pianiste

Synopsis

Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.

Special Features

- Isabelle Huppert commentary.
- Michael Haneke & Elfriede Jelinek interviews.
- Behind the scenes: post synchronisation.
- Filmographies.
- Theatrical trailer.