The Piano Teacher (Blu-ray)

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoit Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

Product details
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Haneke
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 10 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2017
Actors ‏ : ‎ Benoit Magimel, Isabelle Huppert
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
Region : All Region
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1