Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 3.0
Crash course in Abnormal Psychology (with good acting)
Isabelle Huppert is an amazing actress. Her rendering of persona in this film is quite remarkable. It only goes downhill after that. Though I would cautiously recommend this film to Huppert fans and Francophiles de Cinema.The film deals in a prismatic way (not straightforward) with issues of self-abuse, incest, self-loathing, sexual deviance, rage, seduction and oddly enough, love.Many questions are left unanswered, hence you must be the psychiatrist and discover the mysterious pathology behind all these behaviours (and you should know that they are not at all clear). If you like the type of film where you have to delve deep into the psychological trauma and gestalt of a character, then this film will leave you thinking and discussing and wondering for hours. Perhaps you will arrive at a diagnosis and many of the questions unanswered will find formulation.Perhaps at that point the wonderful sets and beautiful acting will not have been for naught, that beneath the pain and excruciating scenes of deviance and humiliation will reveal something deeper about the human condition and our common existence. If you arrive at such a conclusion would you please write me and enlighten me as to this film's deeper meanings.Also, it should be noted that this film is extremely explicit.Not for kids under any circumstances.