The Piano
Silence affects everyone in the end.
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- Drama
- Romance
Overview
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Keywords
- culture clash
- 19th century
- woman director
- forbidden love
- new zealand
- isolation
- intense
- dramatic
- jealousy
- wilderness
- domestic violence
- pianist
- beach
- sign languages
- mother daughter relationship
- sexuality
- adultery
- love triangle
- secret love
- settler
- arranged marriage
- playing piano
- piano
- intimate
- mute
- violent husband
- strangeness
- maori
- severed finger
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 18, 1993
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Māori
- Countries
- New Zealand, Australia, France
- Production
- CiBy 2000,New South Wales Film & Television Office,Jan Chapman Productions,Australian Film Commission
- Cast
- Holly Hunter,Harvey Keitel,Sam Neill,Anna Paquin,Cliff Curtis,Kerry Walker,Ian Mune,Geneviève Lemon,Pete Smith,Bruce Allpressand 10 more
- Director
- Jane Campion
- Writer
- Jane Campion
- Producer
- Jan Chapman,Alain Depardieu
- Cinematography
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Music
- Michael Nyman
- Budget
- $7,000,000
- Revenue
- $40,247,071
- IMDb
- tt0107822