Isabelle Huppert in one of her best, yet most provocative performances of her career plays a sexually repressed middle-age piano professor, whose masochism and co-dependent relationship with her mother has forged an icy demeanor. She soon finds her life turned upside down after meeting a young student who has become infatuated with her. Academy Award winning director Michael Haneke presents a shocking, yet fascinating psychological study of female sexuality and control in this Grand Prix winning film. Based on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel. In French and German w/ subtitles.
Contains graphic violence and instances of aberrant sexual situations including rape. Please be advised.
Director Michael Haneke
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel
Country Austria
Language Austria (with subtitles)
Aspect 1.85