Michael Haneke
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The Piano Teacher: (La Pianiste)
Michael Haneke
An unexpected critical (Grand Prix at Cannes) and commercial (three months in London’s West End) success on its release in 2001, The Piano Teacher is a provocative, but ultimately frustrating, film. The intensifying relationship between Erika Kohut, a Viennese piano teacher whose musical focus is gradually undone by sexual repression, and Walter Klemmer, her uninhibited but unsuspecting student and admirer, lacks an underlying motivation, either physical or emotional, to sustain the tortuous encounters of the film’s later stages.
Director Michael…
