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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Jane Campion
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Actors:
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Tungia Baker,
Peter Dennett,
Te Whatanui Skipwith,
Holly Hunter,
Harvey Keitel,
Sam Neill,
Anna Paquin,
Kerry Walker,
Geneviève Lemon,
Ian Mune
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)114.5
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Plot Summary:
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Writer/steersman Jane Campion's third quality unearthed stirring undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Orion), a mute who has willed herself not to on a talk more loudly, and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) repossess themselves in the Young Zealand wilderness, with Ada the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam Neill). Ada immediately takes a dislike to Stewart when he refuses to conduct her love piano home with them. But Stewart ma... kes a dispense with his overseer George Baines (Harvey Keitel) to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to payment the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged bodily encounters. As pent-up emotions of flip one's wig and desire swirl circa all three characters, the savage wilderness begins to consume the tiny European enclave. Campion imbues her narration with an over-ripe tactility and a murky, metrical undertow that betray the characters' confined yet overwhelming emotions: Ada's buried sensuality, Baines' private tenderness, and Stewart's suppressed indignation and strength. The story unfolds a Greek tragedy of the Outback, undivided with a Greek chorus of Maori tribesmen and a blithely uncaring natural environment that envelops the characters an additional player. Campion directs with discreet aloofness, observing single character through the glances and squints of another as they break through through wooden slats, airy curtains, and the spaces between a character's fingers. She makes the film closest and important past implicating the audience in characters' gazes. And she guides Tracker to a revelatory discharge of serene picture majesty. Relying on pithy glances and using body language to convey her soulful depths, Hunter became a modern Lillian Gish and won an Oscar for her playing, as did Paquin and Campion as a replacement for her screenplay. Campion achieved something rare in contemporary cinema: a rhyme of face told in the order of an afar-center melodrama.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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The Piano
"...An exquisitely romantic personal ode to creativity..." - Recommended
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