The Piano (1993)

Name: The Piano
Released: 1993
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis

• Movies, Drama, Romance

• 120 min

7.4

Directed by: Jane Campion
Casting: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker, Ian Mune, Geneviève Lemon, Pete Smith, Bruce Allpress, Rose McIver, Verity George, Stephen Papps, Karen Colston, Eddie Campbell, Te Whatanui Skipwith, Tungia Baker, Neil Gudsell, Jon Sperry, Greg Mayor
Countries: New Zealand, Australia, France
Premiere: 1993-05-18
Status: Released

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

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-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.