a triumph!

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2007)

what a character we are privileged to see in this magnificent work of art.
Holy Hunter plays her lifetime performance as a mute woman that is conquered by her own piano.this mute woman accompanied by her piano and daughter sets on a journey to meet her new husband.the relationship between this new married couple is moving very slow and in the first period of time over there she spends more time with her husband's good friend, Baines (played by Harvey Keitel) than she spends with her husband.when giving him (Baines) due to his request piano lessons.a special connection develops between those two and as expected in such situation's things are starting to get unpleasant and dangerous.
this film is very symbolic and amazingly beautiful which made it really easy for me to fall in love with.we are witnessing a true triumph of a woman that is ahead of her time, a stranger to all that is surrounding her but yet when facing the crossroads between life and death she chooses life, a new life without her possessive and spoiled piano.