Guest evenflowDDT Report post Posted November 6, 2002 Hey, I seem to remember hearing and reading a lot of praise for the French film The Piano Teacher, which just hit DVD today. Has anyone seen it? If so, what is it about, and what are your thoughts on it? Is it praiseworthy? Is it worth a rental? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ArkhamGlobe Report post Posted November 6, 2002 Basically it's an extremely disturbing look at the self-destructive behaviour of a middle aged piano teacher. Here's a brief synopsis from imdb: "Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's own novel "The Piano Teacher", the film is a stunning look at how a middle-aged woman, a piano professor at the Vienna Music Conservatory, is gradually being self-destructed. Erika Kohut, who had a weird love-hate relationship with her mother, was torn by her emotions to music and her dark desires. She often visited the peep show and a porn cinema in the low-class district of Vienna, and voyeured couples' random mating at night in the park. One day, after one of her students expressed his feeling during the private class, her inhibited desires explode... " I pretty much got a similiar feeling watching the film that I got when I watched Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" ("Repulsion" is a much better film, but that's beside the point). The film is definitely not for all tastes (apart from the subject matter I remember it also having a rather slow pace), but it might be worth seeing it to decide for yourself. I personally thought it was a very good film, but I can certainly understand why one would disagree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
