Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 5.0
A Necessary Tale
What some people might find unusual about the story of The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) is how common it really is. The vast numbers of sexually "complicated" people exist within our society and their individual tales are rarely discussed in popular culture. Michael Haneke steps foward boldly to correct this problem. Isabelle Huppert's Erika is an exceptionally talented artist and her needs are specific and frightening to those who do not understand the context of her nearly 50 years of life. How can anyone understand anyone sexually? It takes years to understand another individual, and the tragedy of The Piano Teacher is that the character Walter gives up on Erika before development can occur. Frightened people do this in the "dating" world everyday. I personally thank Michael Haneke and Elfriede Jelinek for this inspiring story every time I come home from another failed attempt at romance. It keeps me going.