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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transfo...
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rmed and this propels them into a dire situation.
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Ada kan niet praten en woont al een tijd alleen met haar dochter. Ze brengt elke dag uren door met het spelen op haar piano. Dan wordt zij uitgehuwd aan Stewart, een man die in Nieuw-Zeeland woont. Eenmaal daar aangekomen met haar dochter en piano, besluit Stewart deze te verkopen aan landverkoper George. Ada is hierdoor zo treurig dat ze afschuw voelt voor Stewart. George vraagt haar om les, zodat ze haar piano kan terug terugverdienen. Maar daar zitten ook andere voorwaarden aan vast. Eerst voelt ze ook afschuw voor hem, maar langzamerhand begint ze een intieme relatie met hem.
This controversially erotic film from New Zealand established screenwriter-director Jane Campion as a universally recognized talent. Holly Hunter stars as Ada, a mute 19th-century woman sent to New Zealand in an arranged marriage with a patriarchal landowner (Sam Neill). She brings along her daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), and tries to also bring her beloved piano, much to the consternation of her new husband, who abandons the piano on a beach. Artistically and emotionally frustrated, Ada finds herself experiencing an erotic awakening when Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate settler covered with Maori tattoos, r...
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escues her piano, buys it from her husband, then strikes a strange bargain with Ada that gradually leads to her sexual awakening--and to an explosive confrontation.
Jaw-droppingly beautfiul with its purple and green palette of untamed New Zealand scenery, THE PIANO is both a ravishing love story and a psychosexual fairy tale on a par with WUTHERING HEIGHTS and JANE EYRE. Featuring a haunting piano score by Michael Nyman and brilliant performances, THE PIANO is a masterpiece, considered one of the best films of the 1990s.
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Just last week word came that Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss would lead the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake from writer Jane Campion , director Garth David and The King's Speech producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning. Now Deadline has word that Holly Hunter (who worked with Campion on The Piano ), David Wenham (Faramir from Lord of the Rings) and Peter Mullan ( War Horse ) have joined the production telling the story of Robin Griffin (Moss), a detective investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl, who is the daughter of a local drug lord. Mullan will play Matt Mitcham, the missing pregnant woman's father and local drug lord while Hunter will play G.J., a guru at a local women's camp. Wenham's role has not yet been revealed, but it'd be nice to see him in a villainous role this time around just to mix things up a bit. Also,
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