Product: La Pianiste (Original French Version)
Rating: 3.0
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I just watched this film and feel as if I need a shower. This is an emotionally drainiing film about two very sick and twisted people: the mother and the daughter. The mother is like Mama Rose in Gypsy, totally focused on her daughter and unwilling or unable to let her go. The daughter is so damaged she cannot break away from her mother and at the same time is sexually repressed and turns to porno to relieve her repression. But it really doesn't release her. At times I felt like strangling that mother but that mother is so sick I felt ashamed at how I felt.This film will stick with you, whether you like it or not and I'm not sure. I watched it through until the end (which means I didn't hate it or I would have walked away). Isabelle Huppert is magnificent (as she always is) and no one plays a repressed woman on the verge of eruption (see La Ceremonie).Even her feelings about Schubert are twisted.I still would say it's worth a rental. You will not forget this movie, I promise.