La Pianiste (Why We Love Cinema)

Show & Culture

Screening of « The Piano Teacher » (« The Piano Teacher »), a 2001 French-Austrian film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel and Annie Girardot. The film received three awards, including the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2002. synopsis Erika Kohut, in her forties, is a respected piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Leading a life of hardened spinsterhood with her possessive elderly mother, this musician gives free rein to her uninhibited sexuality by spying on others…