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8.0
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8,858 Ratings

Synopsis

When an arranged marriage brings Ada, a mute woman, and her daughter to 19th-century New Zealand, her controlling husband refuses to transport her most prized possession: a piano. A rugged frontiersman agrees to bring it home in exchange for private lessons. A forbidden attraction begins to grow…

Our take

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Jane Campion’s masterwork concerns a woman’s fortitude in a forced marriage. Uniting two of the finest actors of the era—Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter—The Piano is a sensuous vision of unlikely romance amid an unforgiving landscape.