Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 4.0
A great film, yet very uncomfortable to watch.
This is a good film, probably even a great film. Isabelle Hupert's performance is rivetting.Great cinema is about effective story-telling. It is not a question of feeding the viewer feel-good candy-floss, however much Hollywood may consider it otherwise.In that sense, this film probably is great cinema.It has a very strong, difficult, script, about an artist on the edge of madness.It has good direction.It has good camera work.It has outstanding acting in both of the principal roles, and in most of the supporting roles.There is an undeniable quality in the film. It is easy to see why it won three of the four main prizes at Cannes.Nonetheless, is is a profoundly uncomfortable film to watch.