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The Piano Teacher (2001)iMDB Rating: 7.4
Date Released : 5 September 2001
Genre : Drama, Music, Thriller
Stars : Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?

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Review :

A rather crude way of providing titillation for voyeurs

Although it seems difficult to take La Pianiste seriously, it contains one feature which is reasonably credible: Erika Kohut's bureaucratic, heartless approach to her students. She seems incapable of grasping the simple fact that people (especially young people), when embarking on a tough career path, deserve every bit of encouragement rather than frequent put-downs and humiliations (let alone broken glass in their coat pockets). Is Kohut a metaphor for nazi Austria?

The remainder of the movie appears to be the product of a troubled mind with rather naive views on human feelings and emotions. The hapless viewer is asked to believe that: two seemingly diverse, incompatible people will fall so deeply 'in love' (expressed with 'je t'aime') that they need to impetuously lower/raise some of their garments in public toilets and gymnasium store rooms to indulge in amateurish, not obviously enjoyable sex practices which one would have thought were confined to the under-15's. (What are hotel rooms for?). Kohut's letter detailing the services expected of her male partner would be funny if it wasn't so boring. Not having read Jelinek's novel, I would not wish to comment on her input, but it doesn't look like Nobel Prize material to me.