THE PIANO

Jane CAMPION
  • 1993
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
Palme d'or (Ex-aequo) 1993 , Award for Best Actress 1993

Ada, her nine year old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteen century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one back key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex emotional sexual bond remarkable for its naïve passion and frightening disregard for limits.

Directed by : Jane CAMPION
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France
Duration: 121

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BAWANG BIEJI

Kaige CHEN

BODY SNATCHERS

Abel FERRARA

BROKEN HIGHWAY

Laurie MC INNES

DOUBA-DOUBA

Alexandre KHVAN

FALLING DOWN

Joel SCHUMACHER

FIORILE

Paolo TAVIANI, Vittorio TAVIANI

FRAUDS

Stephan ELLIOTT

FRIENDS

Elaine PROCTOR

HSIMENG RENSHENG

Hsiao Hsien HOU

KING OF THE HILL

Steven SODERBERGH

LA SCORTA

Ricky TOGNAZZI

LIBERA ME

Alain CAVALIER

LOUIS, ENFANT ROI

Roger PLANCHON

MA SAISON PRÉFÉRÉE

André TÉCHINÉ

MAGNIFICAT

Pupi AVATI

MAZEPPA

BARTABAS

NAKED

Mike LEIGH

SPLITTING HEIRS

Robert M. YOUNG