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AKA: La Pianiste
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Starring: Isabelle Huppert (Erika Kohut), Benoit Magimel (Walter Klemmer), Annie Girardot (Mother)
Country: France, Austria; Effed Up European Films
Language: French (Eng Subs); Effed Up French Cinema
Runtime: 02:10:59
Genres: Family, Domestic Abuse, Older-Younger Relationships, SelfHarm, Sexual-Violence against Women, Voyeur, SM-Roleplay, Misery-Depressing
Plot – Spoilers:
A Viennese piano teacher, Erika, specializing in Schubert shares an apartment and a complex relationship with her mother. They fight, sometimes it gets physical, then they hug and make up. But it’s always Erika saying sorry.
Their rivalry is symbolic quite early on when they head to a private recital. Mother is dressed fancy wearing jewellery while Erika’s in a dull coat. And it’s Erika’s performance. There is no rivalry.
Mother has total control of Erika’s life including romance and sexuality. But Erika, who needs a permission slip from mother if she’s gonna be home a few hours late, is a different cold beast outdoors where she’s respected but feared by her peers and students.
A person resigned to their sexuality being a solo activity can get weirdly creative. And so it is with Erika. Watching porn at home is out of the question, so she goes to a rental and watches movies while sniffing the used spunk-laden tissues lying there. Sometimes she just mutilates her pussy. Other times, it’s less dramatic as she voyeurs around couples fucking in public and takes a piss in suffering ecstasy as tears roll down her cheeks. But whatever she gets up to outside home, when she returns, she’s quick to check her heels and make sure there’s no dirt for mother to notice she’s been out, offroad.
All this though is just a small half in a work of mastery from the Austrian master, Michael Haneke.
A cocksure young man, Walter, tries to force himself into Erika’s icy world and we see another side to her as she flits between S and M, while awakening in Walter, things he was unaware of. This takes a while though, because Erika by force of habit doesn’t want to get to know Walter like regular folk do. She needs to be able to study him from afar, to form an opinion of him when he’s not around her – in short, all impressions of him are to not come from outside, but from within, as she reiterates her opinions to herself.
Outstanding performances from two leads is what’s needed for a deeply complex relationship and that’s exactly what Haneke extracts here.
Random:
So why are characters set in Vienna talking mostly in French. Apparently Haneke was so sure he wanted Isabelle Huppert, he just got everyone to go French.
Erika could be braces the way shes giving him straight teeth
The frogs used to make great films back in the early 2000s. Too bad they finally went woke and churn out absolute shit now. 🤣
I wanna be dominated by men so bad but im a boy
im about to watch this.
beautiful. will never watch again. also i need a cigarette.
my brother just another me
erika is just another me
wtf is this even about this woman does not even know wtf she want just fuck la already waste my time bitch
Said he could match my freak, showed him dis movie
one thing I find interesting is modern dark rom films today vs stuff like this. it’s like theres a shift in what ladies find attractive and we’re back to lumberjack looking men (*we dont really see hairless boys like this anymore, not in the sense i would like them, but its an interesting change)
Wow!!!😲🤯
She matches my freak
I need a girl who also enjoys these kind of movies. It’s art
erika is hot af
i know her head game impeccable
que putas mierdas es esto
This romantic af
Does anybody have any other good sources for Haneke’s films online? I love EUM but I’ve exhausted my selection of his work here.
NAW ERIKA A FREAK
I didn’t get the ending. Erika just injured herself and… Went way?
sad ending, didnt expect their relationship to end so badly
I can fix her
My 3rd Time watching this
One of Hanekes most involved movies, with the usual great performances he gets out of actors. Like all Haneke movies, this one poses many questions and will leave you asking yourself if you truly want your fantasies to become true, or if it would be better if they would remain a fantasy.
Solid 9
im too dumb to understand this movie
Now that’s one effed up piano teacher. He obviously thought he could make her feel something, anything, but no joy.
Quietly fucked it
LATINA GYATT SPOTTED 👀👀👀
Please add an option to remove subtitles, merci
what a stunning and meaningful movie. one of my favorites! glad it’s on here too now
Yourall just shit cant, Infantfuckers.!
wasn’t bad at all, but not sure if I understand what the ending was about…
These sites made millions when they first arrived. Not sure if they do anymore. Actually in the past it was normal for the servers to be in mums basement chugging along with little maintenance and just adding to the owners college fund.
I can do private piano tutoring for your kids,even let them play on my pipe organ all day long.
Brilliant, fascinating and bizarre film. The musical sequences are monumental, especially the elegant duel piano recital. Epic performance by Isabelle Huppert. 5 stars.
I’ll get some flack for this but I find it repulsive that some comments below are written on such a sophisticated film as this. It’s an embarrassment.
What a great choice, Admin(s)! This film has always made me think of Liliana Calvani’s ‘The Night Porter’, which would be an excellent choice too, but maybe this film is already here.
SUCK MY DICK COCK GOBBLER CUNT FAGGOT PRICK ASSHOLE FUCK BITCH DICKHEAD RAPE
(Sorry, just trying to reach out. Maybe the Admin(s) can try to get funding from non-American agencies that aim at improving the understanding of American culture.)
What I like especially is that the Admin(s) have given themselves away in their love and fascination for Isabelle Huppert. Of course, she is a great actress, but there is something else: she is high-class and vulgar at the same time, dominating always, hardly ever open to other people, yet, one gets the impression there is a tender, caring side somewhere as well. These contradictions, uncertainties about what is important to us, is the ultimate element of what makes ‘effedup’: never ‘you’, always strange and out of reach.
The second interesting thing is this remark about the characters speaking French. Before WW II this was a lingua franca in Europe and remained so for quite a while in the cultural upper-classes. So why not speaking French. Nowadays, the characters would perhaps speak English (Huppert was in several English-language movies but would that make a difference for the film?
Howdy superstars!!
Excellent film. A must watch.
This slut is like Richard/Ed/Steve…..Seems to have MPD, is pretty good on the piano…BUT SUCKS ON THE ORGAN……..Hey Ron, You got a live one here buddy!
love all of Micheal Hanekes films, this one included
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