Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 5.0
An in your face view of sexual madness ....
Although for the most part I enjoyed this film I have to admit that the utterly continental French ending leaving the audience to wonder what in the world happened and really left me cold with a feeling that I had fallen off a cliff or was cheated ....In this movie we find our single 30'ish piano teacher extraordinaire living with her mother in modern day Paris with her domineering mother ..... Since both of them sleep together, in an apartment that we find does have more than one bedroom, the viewer is on more than one accasion treated to observe a violent and disturbing relationship between mother and daughter from the get go ...To say that our heroine sufferes from sexual repression pushing her to madness we see perversion come to the light of day when she is openly courted by one of her younger students who could have practically any girl his own age for the sheer asking ..... The students admission of love for his teacher forces her to face up to her repressed sexual urges and fetishes, which, in turn are initially rebuffed as madness .....Although we hope that this young woman would be able to overcome her obsessions there is always a feeling within the viewers mind that this tragedy will not end well.....Definitely for the mature viewers among us ....