The piano teacher
Subtitle: [La pianiste]
By: Janus Films ; Wega Film, MK2 SA, Les films Alain Sarde présentent ; scénario et réalisation, Michael Haneke, d'après le roman de Elfriede Jelinek ; producteur, Veit Heiduschka [and others] ; image, Christian Berger ; son, Guillaume Sciama ; montage, Mona Willi ; décors, Christoph Kanter ; directeur de production, Michael Katz, Gebhard Zupan
Contributors: Huppert, Isabelle, actor; Girardot, Annie, 1931-2011, actor; Magimel, Benoît, actor; Lothar, Susanne, actor; Wega Film (Firm); MK2 Productions; Films Alain Sarde (Firm); Arte France cinéma (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm); Janus Films
Series: Criterion collection -- [894]; Criterion collection -- 894.
Published: 2017
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781681433561
Subjects: Drama; Mothers and daughters; Teacher-student relationships; Piano teachers; Masochism
Other titles: Pianiste; Pianiste (Motion picture : France, 2001)
Description: Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter, a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.
Notes: Title from container and disc surface; credits from title and concluding frames.

"Une coproduction austro-française avec Arte France Cinema."

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

Based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin, by Elfriede Jelinek, published in Germany by Rowohlt in 1983.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: new interview with Haneke; new interview with Isabelle Huppert; selected-scene commentary from 2002 featuring Huppert; behind-the-scene commentary from 2002 featuring Huppert; behind the scenes footage of a postsync session for the film featuring Haneke and Huppert; trailer; essay by scholar Moira Weigel.

Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Georg Friedrich, Anna Sigalevitch.

MPAA rating: R; for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language OFRB rating: R.

DVD.

French dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).