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The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives cooped up with her mother. Her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths. Until one day, one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her.
22 June 1929, Berlin, Germany
1972, Mödling, Austria
31 October 1946, Budapest, Hungary
31 August 1944, Vienna, Austria
24 May 1941, Arad, Romania
November 20, 2002
[Isabelle Huppert] outdoes herself.
July 20, 2002
A striking, brilliant film with extraordinary performances -- and Huppert's acting is heartrending.
November 04, 2002
This is a penetrating, deeply disturbing examination of desire and loneliness, of desperation and self-denial.
July 28, 2006
A film of Artaudian cruelty, and a boundary-breaker in the cinema's exploration of its own erotic and artisanal id.
August 30, 2002
A gripping psychological thriller that, while lacking the power of Funny Games, is still the work of a master.
August 13, 2004
A revolting and shocking work devoid of redemption and purpose.
June 21, 2002
Is like The Graduate remade by David Lynch; it's no picnic to watch, but you can't look away.
February 13, 2003
If genital mutilation, rape, incest and twisted acts of sexual gratification are your thing, then this is the film for you. Any takers?
August 16, 2002
It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one.
January 30, 2003
It's a harrowing, difficult film that's only for the most adventurous art-house movie fans.
February 10, 2010
[Huppert gives] the single finest performance I have ever seen her give, and therefore almost by default one of the best of the decade.
September 19, 2002
It is depressing, ruthlessly pained and depraved, the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound.

