The Piano Teacher

La pianiste

Oostenrijk, Frankrijk, 2001

Drama

Samenvatting

In deze romanadaptatie van Nobelprijswinnaar Elfried Jelinek, die meerdere prijzen ontving op het filmfestival in Cannes, speelt Isabelle Huppert een briljante maar seksueel onderdrukte pianolerares. Haar wereld wordt verpest door de avances van één van haar studenten.

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The Piano Teacher Geregisseerd door Michael Haneke

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Prijzen & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

2001 | 3 overwinningen waaronder: Best Actor

Locarno International Film Festival

2011

Independent Spirit Awards

2003 | Genomineerde: Best Foreign Film

Toronto International Film Festival

2001

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Cast & Medewerkers

Notebook Artikelen

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Recensies

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The Piano Teacher mostly eschews historical and sociological questions. Instead, it stakes its claim on the continued vitality of an endangered European tradition—not classical music but the art cinema itself. Positing a masochistic spectator who wants to suffer through a film like this one, it makes a bid to turn us into teachers—or its transmitters. The paradox is that it works, and that this may mean accepting, as Erika muses in the novel, that "art is no consolation.

Moira Weigel

September 26, 2017

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The success of The Piano Teacher is as much a product of its lead performer as it is its director. Huppert gives Erika’s contradictory behaviour nuance and vitality, while Haneke’s restrained style allows us to attend to the complexity of her performance. Erika’s stern declaration that she lacks feelings is undermined by the obstinacy of her body which conveys much more than she would like.

Alison Taylor

February 16, 2017

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Haneke uses Huppert’s gaze and frames her face to fully transmit that his portrait is of a lady who’s not right in the head. Huppert’s close-ups, most of them reactions to things that we only ultimately glimpses (if we see them at all), show that Haneke doesn’t need to show us more than those little demonstrations of self-harm to construct the relationship between Huppert’s piano teacher and her student, which descends into an exploration of consent, sanity and the limits of pleasure.

Jaime Grijalba

November 16, 2016

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Wat zeggen anderen?

astygianelysium's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
astygianelysium

The leading trio of actors portray not human beings, but elements of Control in a film which explores it at its every extreme corner. this is Control over the self (restraint, of the camera, of the pianists) as much at is relational (the mother as a restriction of potential, the game of the lovers rewriting the sex laws against each other). to read it psychologically seems a mistake: this a film foremost about form.
June 24, 2019 10:40
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Abhinay Jakhar's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Abhinay Jakhar

the highest praise i can bestow upon this film is that it manages to create an immense empathy for the character while consciously steering away from melodrama or heavy handed storytelling.this film is a cinephile’s delicacy. note to self : WATCH EVERYTHING BY MICHEAL HANEKE
June 01, 2019 02:16
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Güattarii's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Güattarii

Una película donde se replica un imaginario poco común por actitudes frente al amor y los actos de placer. Llego un momento hasta el que me dio asco y remordimiento la conducta de Erika, no existe forma de describir tal emoción para formas de placer tan inexplicables como la primera vez que vemos una persona morir o comerse el raspado de un strüdell de manzana.
January 24, 2019 17:59
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El Biffo's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
El Biffo

The film that made Isabelle Huppert the greatest actress in France. Simply amazing. No, not simple at all, actually. Amazing.
June 05, 2019 05:16
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Coral Amiga's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Coral Amiga

Deeply disturbing and yet undeniably moving. Pushing limits you didn't want to know existed to begin with. Grotesque without malice, love without hope, lust without inhibitions. It constantly defies boundaries and leaves you feeling like most Haneke's films do - like you can never go back to seeing things the way you used to.
July 16, 2019 23:21
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Duncan Gray's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Duncan Gray

Sure, a study of a bourgeoisie that'll talk Schubert but watch porn, but I usually prefer this sort of Freudian potboiler when it's pretending to be trash. That said, the biggest twist is that its kinks are revealed with tenderness and even a chance for hope. Both of which are dashed, leaving the disturbed confusion of love/sex/intimacy gone wrong when it reels from theory to practice. Huppert is enormously moving.
May 23, 2019 17:45
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Ethan's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Ethan

This is one harshly sexual film and Isabelle Huppert gives an intense performance that proves she is one of the greatest actors of all time. Huppert can express more with a blank stare then most can with a ten minute monologue. Haneke crafts a meticulous film that focuses on the repression and lack of human compassion that the films characters have for each other. This is feel bad cinema at its finest.
January 24, 2019 18:59
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Ghostman's rating of the film The Piano Teacher
Ghostman

A masterpiece. One of the greatest films of world cinema. And further confirmation that Isabelle Huppert is the greatest actor in all of cinema. I used to hate Haneke because I hated his American Funny Games and that was the first thing I saw by him. I'd avoid his work like the plague but now I want to watch everything by him. The Piano Teacher is one of the most heartbreaking films I've ever seen.
January 24, 2019 18:54
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