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The Piano (1993)

The Piano (1993)

Drama Romance

Silence affects everyone in the end.

Release Date: 1993, May 18
Directors: Jane Campion
Countries: Australia, France
Production: CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
Cast: Cliff Curtis, Harvey Keitel, Pete Smith, Ian Mune, Bruce Allpress, Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Eddie Campbell, Kerry Walker, Rose McIver, Geneviève Lemon

Overview:

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Keywords:

woman director piano love triangle adultery forbidden love dramatic intense isolation 19th century beach mother daughter relationship intimate jealousy pianist secret love sign languages settler domestic violence wilderness arranged marriage playing piano sexuality culture clash mute severed finger violent husband strangeness new zealand maori