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Directed by: Michael Haneke
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 (Benoît 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 its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
French DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Audio Commentary, Behind the Scenes Footage, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New interview with Michael Haneke
- New interview with actor Isabelle Huppert
- Selected-scene commentary from 2002 featuring Isabelle Huppert
- Behind-the-scenes footage of a postsync session for the film featuring Michael Haneke and Isabelle Huppert
- Trailer
- An essay by scholar Moira Weigel
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