The piano teacher
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.
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- ISBN: 9781681433561
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Physical Description
videodisc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from sell sheet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: new interview with Haneke; new interview with Isabelle Huppert; selected-scene commentary from 2002 featuring Huppert; behind-the-scene commentary from 2002 featuring Huppert; behind the scenes footage of a postsync session for the film featuring Haneke and Huppert; trailer; essay by scholar Moira Weigel. GMD: videodisc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Georg Friedrich, Anna Sigalevitch. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: R; for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language OFRB rating: R. |
| System Details Note: | DVD. |
| Language Note: | French dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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Library Journal Review
The Piano Teacher
Library Journal
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A coldly demanding middle-aged piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert), who still lives with her domineering mother, only finds pleasure in voyeurism until she embarks on a sadomasochistic affair with a handsome student. Michael Haneke (Cache; The White Ribbon) directs with detached precision, exploring how control functions in relationships-both familial and romantic-in this challenging film. As she proved yet again with last year's Elle, Huppert is never undeterred by controversial roles-carefully striking the difficult notes in this newly restored, high-def -presentation. [See Trailers, LJ 8/17.] © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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