The Piano Teacher (French, DVD)

Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother, with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship.

But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.

In French with English subtitles.

General

Studio:	Artificial Eye
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2002
Movie released:	2001
Actors:	Isabelle Huppert
Directors:	Michael Haneke
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	2 hours, 9 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.0
Languages:	French
Subtitles:	English
Age restriction:	18 SNL
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Romance DVD > Art Films DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XNF-EFA-NKE-7
Barcode:	5021866214306

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• Interactive Menus
• Enhanced WS tv
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Interviews: Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel

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Even the music is excellent

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 | Review by: Michael S.

A curious story, with brilliant performances from Huppert and Magimel, which goes far beyond a miserable music teacher having an affair with a student, but with complex reflections on sadism and masochism, relationships and age differences. He's interested in a simple affair and finds he has got far more than he bargained for : but then, when he gives her what she very explicitly asked for, in written instructions, she finds that you don't always want what you think you want.

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Shocking

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 | Review by: sola S.

I took this DVD because of its star rating and the awards it gleaned, however the subject...masicism/sadism however prevalent does not make for enjoyable vieiwing. I found it too disturbing. The code unknown by the same director is thought provoking although rather depressing.

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