The Piano R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 31, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Miramax Lionsgate

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1993 - Best Actress: Holly Hunter
Academy Awards 1993 - Best Original Screenplay: Jane Campion
Academy Awards 1993 - Best Supporting Actress: Anna Paquin
Cannes 1993 - Best Actress: Holly Hunter
Cannes 1993 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh92%

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Upright86%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 48,409
From a distance, "The Piano" seems too preposterous for words; but then, as Ada knows all too well, words merely get in the way. Full Review
New Yorker
Sep 6, 2018
...A severely beautiful, mysterious movie that, as if by magic, liberates the romantic imagination....[The] principal performances are extraordinary...
New York Times
Oct 16, 1993
Rating: 5/5 -- As tender, remarkable and sincere as drama comes. Full Review
Little White Lies
Jun 15, 2018
...Campion manages her story and symbols beautifully, and evokes harrowing performances from her four leads...
Film Comment
Jul 1, 1993
Campion uses the jaw-dropping beauty of the west coast of New Zealand as the stunning backdrop for her febrile tale of obsession, desire and passion. Full Review
Backseat Mafia
Oct 31, 2018
Rating: A+ -- [VIDEO] "The Piano" is a powerful film for its slow, inevitable inertia of drama. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 26, 2011
This is cinema that fills every sense. Full Review
Sight and Sound
Jun 20, 2018

Product Description:

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, rescues 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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  • UPC: 031398149620
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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