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.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2806D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 894.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 130 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 19 cm)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681433561
- 1681433567
- Container title: Piano teacher
- Man-woman relationships -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama
- Music teachers -- Family relationships -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama
- Music teachers -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama
- Piano teachers -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama
- Mothers and daughters -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama
- Teacher-student relationships -- Drama
- Masochism -- Drama
- Director of photography, Christian Berger ; editors, Monika Willi, Nadine Muse.
- Cannes Film Festival, 2001: Grand Prize of the Jury (Michael Haneke); Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert); Best Actor (Benoît Magimel).
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Erika, a middle-aged 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 young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
In French with optional English subtitles.
Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Köndgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss, William Mang.
Director of photography, Christian Berger ; editors, Monika Willi, Nadine Muse.
Title from screen credits.
Based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
MPAA rating: R; for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language OFRB rating: R.
"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 codepenƯdent relationƯship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masƯochistic 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
disc one. [Feature] -- disc two. [Special features].
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
Cannes Film Festival, 2001: Grand Prize of the Jury (Michael Haneke); Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert); Best Actor (Benoît Magimel).