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"In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music ... Erika [is] a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory...

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Other Authors: Haneke, Michael, 1942- (Screenwriter), Huppert, Isabelle (Actor), Girardot, Annie, 1931-2011 (Actor), Magimel, Benoît (Actor), Lothar, Susanne (Actor), Samel, Udo (Actor), Sigalevitch, Anna (Actor), Köndgen, Cornelia, 1953- (Actor), Weinhappel, Thomas (Actor), Berger, Christian, 1945- (director of photography.), Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:French
Language Notes:In French with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Edition:Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 894.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > Austria > Vienna > Drama.
Music teachers > Family relationships > Austria > Vienna > Drama.
Music teachers > Austria > Vienna > Drama.
Piano teachers > Austria > Vienna > Drama.
Mothers and daughters > Austria > Vienna > Drama.
Teacher-student relationships > Drama.
Masochism > Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Masochism.
Mothers and daughters.
Music teachers.
Piano teachers.
Teacher-student relationships.
Austria > Vienna.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Romance films.
Foreign films.
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Summary:"In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music ... Erika [is] a 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, a student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life."--Container.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek.
Special features: new interview with director Michael Haneke; new interview with actress Isabelle Huppert; selected-scene commentary from 2001 featuring Huppert; behind-the-scenes footage featuring Haneke and Huppert; trailer; new English subtitle translation; container insert includes an essay "Bad Romances" by film scholar Moira Weigel.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 14 cm)
Format:Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.
Audience:MPAA rating: R; for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language OFRB rating: R.
Awards:Cannes Film Festival, 2001: Grand Prize of the Jury (Michael Haneke); Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert); Best Actor (Benoît Magimel).
Production Credits:Director of photography, Christian Berger ; editors, Monika Willi, Nadine Muse.
ISBN:9781681433554
1681433559