The Piano Teacher

Date:: from 4 Nov 2025

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Isabelle Huppert gives a brilliant performance in Michael Haneke’s dark psychological drama.

La Pianiste
2001, Michael Haneke

France–Austria–Germany
131 minutes, French with Russian subtitles

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar

Erika, a professor at the Vienna Conservatory, appears extremely stern and self-assured. But, as Walter, a student who dares to fall in love with his teacher, discovers, passions that Schumann and Schubert could never have imagined are boiling inside her.

Shot from The Piano Teacher, 2001

This is a smart movie that knows its classical music, knows its Freud and knows its Sade.

— Jeff Stark, Salon.com

Almost a quarter of a century after the film’s release, it feels almost prophetic, as though it foresaw how atomised humanity gradually descends into mental illness, looking to hide its traumas ever deeper.

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