The Piano Teacher

Michael Haneke’s award-winning psychological drama sees a piano teacher, who is stifled by her relationship with her mother, embark on a dangerous game with a student who has fallen for her. Isabelle Huppert’s steely and riveting performance anchors Michael Haneke’s provocative psychological drama, which took home the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix along with acting prizes for Huppert and her co-star Benoît Magimel in 2001. She plays Erika, an unmarried piano teacher who has a stifling toxic relationship with her mother (Annie Girardot), whose home she shares. A repressed voyeur, Erika indulges her masochistic urges alone until a much younger student, Walter (Magimel) becomes determined to pursue her. Haneke’s adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel is a cool dissection of control dynamics that is still potently thought-provoking more than two decades later. Screening as part of Austria on Screen German with English Subtitles UK Premiere of the 4K restoration Thanks to CurzonAustria, France 2001PT2H11M182025-03-05

Isabelle Huppert

Annie Girardot

Benoit Magimel

Michael Haneke

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Showtimes

March 5, 8:00 pm

March 6, 5:45 pm