Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in hi... (Full plot summary below)
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Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
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| Toronto StarGeoff PevereThe Piano Teacher is not an easy film. It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves, and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling. |
| Houston ChronicleEric HarrisonThis austerely stunning film reminds us that not all art is pretty. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadaySeems less like a fictional story than a tour through Freud's forgotten files. |
| Nashville SceneSteve EricksonFor a director who's often raged against the manipulations of Hollywood, Haneke is as gifted a puppetmaster as Steven Spielberg. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA powerful and outrageous film from Belgian director Michael Haneke, takes that stereotype and stands it on its head. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanA masterful and lacerating vision of masochism and domination set in the conservative conservatories of Vienna. |
| Contra Costa TimesMary F. PolsHaneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIs like The Graduate remade by David Lynch; it's no picnic to watch, but you can't look away. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekThe Piano Teacher does not have a sentimental bone in its body, and is smugly difficult for this reason. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzTo get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of Dr. Freud. |
