Piano Teacher/bd
Criterion Collection
Piano Teacher/bd
Criterion Collection
Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as 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 (Benoit Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for it's stars at Cannes is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.
Media | Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | September 26, 2017 |
Original release date | 2001 |
EAN/UPC | 0715515203913 |
Label | Criterion CCIN2805BR |
Dimensions | 134 × 167 × 14 mm · 94 g |
Playtime | 02:11:00 |
Region code | Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia) |
Audio Format | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) |
Language | French |
Subtitles | English |
Director | Michael Haneke |
Skuespiller | Isabelle Huppert |
Skuespiller | Annie Girardot |
Skuespiller | Benoît Magimel |
Skuespiller | Susanne Lothar |
Skuespiller | Udo Samel |
Skuespiller | Georg Friedrich |
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