TY  - ADVS
AU  - Campion,Jane
AU  - Chapman,Jan
AU  - Hunter,Holly
AU  - Keitel,Harvey
AU  - Neill,Sam
AU  - Paquin,Anna
AU  - Walker,Kerry
AU  - Curtis,Cliff
ED  - CIBY 2000 (Firm),
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm),
TI  - The piano
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 9781681439082
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - [New York, N.Y.]
PB  - The Criterion Collection
KW  - Mute persons
KW  - Drama
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Pianists
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Title and credits from screen; Originally released as a motion picture in 1993; Wide screen (1.85:1); Special features: commentary soundtrack recorded in 2006 by Jane Campion and Jan Chapman; new conversation between Campion and film critic Amy Taubin; The piano: 25 years on (2018 conversation with Jane Campion and Jan Chapman); Michael Nyman (2005 interview with the film composer); new interviews with Dryburgh and production designer Andrew McAlpine; interview with actor Holly Hunter on working with Campion; The piano at 25, a program featuring a conversation between Campion and producer Jan Chapman; excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson; Waihoroi Shortland (2021 interview with the film's advisor); Water diary, a 2006 short film by Campion; trailer; Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; editor, Veronika Jenet ; music, Michael Nyman; Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Cliff Curtis; MPAA rating: R; for moments of extremely graphic sexuality
N2  - With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her ineffectual husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography, dramatic coastal landscapes, and a sweeping score, this uniquely timeless evocation of a woman's inner awakening is an intoxicating sensory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion
ER  -