Bibliograph

The piano, a film by Jane Campion ; produced by Jan Chapman ; written and directed by Jane Campion

Type

Label

The piano, a film by Jane Campion ; produced by Jan Chapman ; written and directed by Jane Campion

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for moments of extremely graphic sexuality

Main title

The piano

Oclc number

1287024871

Responsibility statement

a film by Jane Campion ; produced by Jan Chapman ; written and directed by Jane Campion

Runtime

121

Series statement

Criterion collection, 1110

Summary

With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her ineffectual husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography, dramatic coastal landscapes, and a sweeping score, this uniquely timeless evocation of a woman's inner awakening is an intoxicating sensory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Piano (Motion picture : 1993)

Classification