Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 81
Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 22
Though it makes for rather unpleasant viewing, The Piano Teacher is a riveting and powerful psychosexual drama.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 4
Though it makes for rather unpleasant viewing, The Piano Teacher is a riveting and powerful psychosexual drama.
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How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not suffer fools gladly; among her students, Erika's class is considered a highly rewarding challenge, but difficult to weather. Erika seems to get her stern and unforgiving nature from her mother (Annie
Sep 1, 2001 Wide
Jan 9, 2007
$0.7M
MK2 Diffusion
All Critics (95) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (22) | DVD (7)
This is a penetrating, deeply disturbing examination of desire and loneliness, of desperation and self-denial.
It is depressing, ruthlessly pained and depraved, the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound.
It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one.
A striking, brilliant film with extraordinary performances -- and Huppert's acting is heartrending.
This demanding, disturbing work is an extreme example of special-interest filmmaking.
Although Huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it, The Piano Teacher is anything but fun.
[Huppert gives] the single finest performance I have ever seen her give, and therefore almost by default one of the best of the decade.
A film of Artaudian cruelty, and a boundary-breaker in the cinema's exploration of its own erotic and artisanal id.
A revolting and shocking work devoid of redemption and purpose.
If genital mutilation, rape, incest and twisted acts of sexual gratification are your thing, then this is the film for you. Any takers?
It's a harrowing, difficult film that's only for the most adventurous art-house movie fans.
[Isabelle Huppert] outdoes herself.
Will leave audiences cold and not a little depressed.
Formidable! What a performance by Huppert. But grim. Ouch, I had hit pause three times to get through it. Art-house erotica done... again.
April 4, 2007Super Reviewer
Disturbing and indecent, but a brilliant character dichotomy exploring themes on desires and depression. The Piano Teacher is an honest and daring wild arousal to curiosity. Remarks a rhetorical question, "what is your dark secret?" Harrowing.
September 10, 2011Super Reviewer
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