Touching and beautifully made

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2005)

'The Piano' is one of the best movies I have ever seen! It is definitely unusual, set in a marshy New Zealand forest but is still fantastic and so touching. Holly Hunter plays a woman sent to New Zealand to marry a man she has never met (Sam Neill) and there falls in love with a local man(Keitel).
The performances by Hunter, Paquin and Keitel were amazing and the first two definitely fully deserved the Oscars that they received. Hunter is brilliant as the mute Scottish woman who comunicates by playing the Piano that she loves(Hunter actually did most of her own playing)and Paquin as her daughter. Considering 'The Piano' was 11 year old New Zealander Anna Paquin's debut and she was playing a 9 year old Scottish girl, her performance was outstanding.
'The Piano' is loved by critics and audiences everywhere and will probably always be.