fleur de chair
15Aug11
Why guilty? The cinematography is outstanding.
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Howard Orr
22Jan12
To me a story about recognising that the letting go of obsession in favour of normality is desirable. A film filled with the dark, sexual interiority of fairy tales.
AdamantCocoon
28Oct11
Don't have the same opinion as the one I had five years ago. Campion furnishes more indelible imagery with In The Cut and Bright Star, which now I'm assured act as perfect distillations of her unique cinematic sensibility and presuppose The Piano as the dastardly phase in which she experiments her themes and yen for languor. As one character would say, "stunted", despite Hunter and the beatific photography.
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Harry Rossi
10Sep11
I actually really feel in love with this film. Very powerful and visually stunning. Also the acting is just phenomenal.
Kyle Petty
27Mar11
Finally "discovered" The Piano last night. Took a couple viewings but it really opened itself up to me. Proof that one viewing is not enough to judge a film.
Ercan
7Jul10
Maybe the most beautifully filmed picture ever made. Cinematography and all the directorial choices of Campion are perfect. Holly Hunter gives a performance that is for the ages. The gestures in her face when she plays her piano on the beach are amazing. Even though i am a male, there are very few films like The Piano that i have emotionally connected with.
Patricia
28May10
I love this picture and I love Jane Campion. Its touching and real. I love the actresses, I love everything about this picutre. I think more people need to know who is Jane Campion as the director. She really is the type of director that is different and distinctive not only because she is one of the few female directors that are recognize but because of her process of filming and writing and the fact that she can show us so much with the great acting in this film without having the any need of any type of overexposure. With her work it is always just the right amount of Je ne sais pas.
Celestial Rebel Productions
20Apr10
Beautifully done. Each scene is like a breathtaking art picture!
Matt Gesicki
10Jan10
So brilliant, so beautiful, so haunting. Holly Hunter gives one of the greatest performances ever captured on film. Every frame of this film is genius. The whole film is rife with depth and symbolism worth discussing for hours. My favorite movie ever.
(Queen of the Mods)
26Dec09
i luvvv jane campion, but when i finally saw this i was not impressed. bright star was 10 times better than this one.
Branden
23Jun09
Unfortunately, this is the only film of Jane Campion's that I have seen. It was fabulous film that got Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin for their portrayals. The New Zealand landscape was breathtaking, exposing societial pressures of duty in Victorian times, having a woman communicate without uttering one word. Great.
