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Summary: real Good Film
Review: got to see this Film recently&I didn't find it near as Strong overall as it was advertised as being.it had some twisted moments&elements going on but overall not that different from what I've seen in film over the past several years.enjoyed the music&overall chemistry.
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Summary: Love/Seduction vs. Wisdom/Youth
Review: The boundaries of love and despair have possibly never been granted so desperate a stage as the slowly weakening lines on the ever-beautiful face of Isabelle Huppert in THE PIANO TEACHER.Erika (Huppert) is a middle-aged piano teacher who spends her existence vascillating between torturous control over the lives of child geniuses and the smothering watchfulness of an aging, dispassionate mother. However, when a young piano-playing engineer (Benoit Magimel) enters her life with his young mind on his lusty attraction, Erika's life begins to unravel. Trying to maintain control, she continues to seek ways to express her innermost feelings without surrendering to the power of emotion -- having been trapped in an emotionless existence for so long. Eventually, she cracks under the stress of her two worlds colliding, with equal parts psychological danger and the allure of eroticism. Two haunting performances (Huppert and Magimel) make this story as captivating as it is disturbing. In the end, both characters are forever changed, unable to return to the solace of the world they knew before and unwilling to sacrifice their outer shells for inner peace. Not for the squeamish, THE PIANO TEACHER is highly recommended.
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Summary: Bad and weird
Review: Ok, first, I like foreign movies, and I especially like French foreign films. They just have a different way of doing things, cinematography etc... But this film was really really bad. There really is no character development, you are just to take these vapid characters with extreme problems at face value. The main charcter is a piano teacher with deviant sexual eccentricities, and thats putting it lightly. Follow her through this film while she tries to make everyone and everything that she touches as sad and lonely as she is. She's a mean woman and it's just not entertaining to watch her spy on young lovers at the drive in, and then urinate next to their car while shes in sexual climax, nor is it interesting to watch her sabotage the young career of one of her students by putting crushed glass in her coat pocket. The only up side to this film is the romantic tendencies of her persuer who, for reasons unknown, is attracted to this woman at any cost.
She's a nasty woman with serious problems.
This film does not resolve a conflict, it abruptly ends.
I would not recommend this film to anyone.
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Summary: Love it !!
Review: In America , we subconsciously champion a "win at all costs" lifestyle . . which is what makes The Piano Teacher such a fascinating movie. Rarely do we understand or view the dark side of perfection . . . a calculus that those who are at the top of their game in a given pursuit - are often disturbingly deficient in other facets of their life. Some reviews of The Piano Teacher mysteriously include adjectives of "gross", "despicable", etc. But they are viewing Piano Teacher through the lenses of a different genre and sanitized perspective. The Piano Teacher is not a family movie. It does not provide us with solace, conflict resolution,
or a "Happy Trails are Here Again" ending. The Piano Teacher is, however, an amazing exploration of the human psyche, sexual repression, self-worth, and sado-masochsim . . all seething in a professional musical environment where perfection is expected. Very entertaining and thought-provoking .
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Summary: Disapointing...
Review: Don't expect exploitation movie it's not a Ilsa. It's not so disturbing. Not so bad but not enough explicit and no shock value. We know the teacher is a bad girl but she could be more dirty so the film is not enough graphic to be remembered. It's cool to have long dialogues but if it's going nowhere (like this one) it must, at least by compensation, show some graphic\explicit scene to enjoy something in the movie. Not just a nowhere blah blah like this one. Not a bad story but nothing to see.
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Summary: A distasteful horror movie.
Review: I chose this movie in BlockBuster, because I like classical music and I am learning piano. I can understand that there are all kinds of people (I mean ALL kinds) in this world, but this is really distastefully beyond my imagination. I realized that a horror movie does not always need killers or vampires. This movie really scared me with its distastefulness. Nevertheless, it made me keep watching till the end, probably because of the superb performance of the actors/actresses. But in the end, I had to say, "Ew! Yuck!". And I was fortunate that I watched R-rated version. The only good thing is that this movie showed some of my favorite pieces such as Schubert's Piano Trio in Eb Op 100 and Brahms's Sextet in Bb. There are movies which you wish you had not watched, because it's sick and disturbing. The movies like Mulholland Drive make you watch one more time even though they are clueless in the first view. This movie is also clueless but I just can't watch it again. I regret that I rented this movie.
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Summary: An in your face view of sexual madness ....
Review: Although for the most part I enjoyed this film I have to admit that the utterly continental French ending leaving the audience to wonder what in the world happened and really left me cold with a feeling that I had fallen off a cliff or was cheated .... In this movie we find our single 30'ish piano teacher extraordinaire living with her mother in modern day Paris with her domineering mother ..... Since both of them sleep together, in an apartment that we find does have more than one bedroom, the viewer is on more than one accasion treated to observe a violent and disturbing relationship between mother and daughter from the get go ... To say that our heroine sufferes from sexual repression pushing her to madness we see perversion come to the light of day when she is openly courted by one of her younger students who could have practically any girl his own age for the sheer asking ..... The students admission of love for his teacher forces her to face up to her repressed sexual urges and fetishes, which, in turn are initially rebuffed as madness ..... Although we hope that this young woman would be able to overcome her obsessions there is always a feeling within the viewers mind that this tragedy will not end well..... Definitely for the mature viewers among us ....
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Summary: An Eccentric Neurotic Erotic Love Story...
Review: A middle aged female piano professor, Erika Kohut at the infamous Vienna conservatory, is still living with the mother who has raised her daughter in a strict and traditional manner. At a private recital she meets a young vigorous man, Walter Klemmer, who plays the piano in a most seductive manner for her. She attempts to keep distance from the young piano player in various ways. However, he applies to the Vienna conservatory in order to be her student. This makes it tremendously difficult for her, since she seems to be terrified of being hurt by Walter's seductive manners. However, their fate is sealed as it is presented in an eccentric and neurotic manner. The Piano Teacher portraits characters with meticulous detail, which elevates the film experience to a superior event.
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Summary: Descending gracefully into the depths of a private hell
Review: This is a breakthrough movie--but not one that you should undertake watching lightly. The word "harrowing" best describes this descent into hell. If you've never been in a battering relationship, you could never understand why someone would stay around and get beaten up day after day, this film will show you. The battering is mutual and invariably followed by bizarre moments of closeness, apology and even tenderness. In emotionally impoverished and dysfunctional families, this is as good as you get, so you go for it. In this sensitive portrayal, the protagonist professor of piano technique, Erika, breaks though her deeply repressed sexuality and attempts to experience love for the first time with one of her students. Attempting to work out her internal conflicts, the love should be expressed alternately in sadism (she's gratuitously mean to all her students) or in masochism (what she demands of her lover is pain and humiliation). Since the object of her desire, Walter, is not only attracive and talented, but also seems to care deeply for her, the agony of this movie is much deeper. As to the film itself, at times it moves slowly. But you need the break to recover from the intensity of the major scenes. The performances of piano and vocal music are paradoxically delightful to hear, and this movie should win an Oscar for "best sound" (every creak of a floor board counts). This is a remarkable movie that should be taken seriously and will reward a mature approach.
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Summary: Absolute stunner
Review: Many people have already written down the plot of this movie. many people understood the plot of the movie. Many people didn't understand the plot of this movie.
This is a hell of a ride. With every next scene you are scared what will be next. But you want, NO you need to see it. Isabella Huppert is amazing and probably has givin the performance of the year. All the acting in this movie is magnificent. Many of the american reviewers don't seem to understand the bigger picture, as if sexual violence is of a worse kind then plain killing with a gun and shooting people in the streets. Knowing how puritan USA is as a country I believe that many people have difficulties seeing al the layers in this movie. There are so many, watch it again and maybe you will see the true art in this film.
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