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Based on Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek's novel "Die Klavierspielerin."
Winner of three major awards at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, The Piano Teacher features a tour-de-force performance by Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed music professor who becomes obsessed with one of her young students (rising European actor Benoit Magimel). Lonely and alienated in her forties, Erika lives with her controlling mother, finding solace only by visiting porn shops and vicariously experiencing her sado-masochistic fantasies. Without a trace of sentimentality or prurience, director Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Code Unknown) delivers a brilliant psychological portrait. The film features one encounter that The New Yorker considered "may be the strongest sex scene in the history of the movies."
This version is unrated. Also available in a director's approved R-Rated Version.
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