Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 1.0
Been done before, and was done better then!
Some of the negative reviews of this movie might be for the wrong reason. Others don't quite articulate the reasoning well enough to be convincing. Maybe I can help?I like philosophy, deep movies, and the French language - so I was looking forward to a fantastic film with compelling new material. Especially after reading how well it did at Cannes. Roger Ebert even gave it a big ol' bunch of stars.Unfortunately, the only interesting themes (which were hinted at only tangentially) in this movie were said by psychoanalysts 80 years ago and Jean-Paul Sartre 50 years ago. Except the difference was that when those thinkers put their ideas out there, they did so in a compelling way that made sense of our innermost feelings and the world around us. This movie fails miserably in this respect, filling up holes in content with the most over the top violence and sex I've ever seen. I ended up watching the unrated version, which probably made the entire experience significantly worse than it would have otherwise been.Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that people are rating this movie highly just because of the positive critical reception it got (Cannes, etc.). The emperor's new clothes phenomenon, you know. The acting is good - I can't imagine how challenging it must have been to play these roles. But that's about all I can say for this movie. Please get something else!