Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 5.0
how much and how little any two can share at the limit
this is a movie that makes critical contributions hard to express, albeit 233rdc's review does the job so well.anyway, upon learning what ms. huppert had to say (in the extras) i was puzzled by her obliquely appropriating this work in the name of feminism--the director's opinion on this is sorely absent.i consider this movie makes an artistic point about what takes place at the near-intersection of woman's pathology with mundane masculinity. the main characters, polarized with such charges, fiercely exhaust each other in a unique orbit (i.e. attraction & repulsion.) they do so much onto each other yet there are the unintended consequences that they live and die by and not their prior projections.it is also worth noticing how MUSIC catalyzes everything up to the point where the orbiting gets dangerous; then it stops. music is all they share, everything else is just a succession of opposite positions the characters take along identical dimenssions.excellent acting, excellent directing, excellent story, good music!