The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) (R)

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Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.

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Drama
2 hr. 1 min.
Opened March 29th, 2002

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A female piano teacher at a prestigious Viennese school lives with her mother in a modest apartment yet is bedeviled by sadomasochist urges, including solitary forays to the local porn parlor, that lead her into an abusive and violent relat... MORE

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synopsis

Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.

details

Drama
2 hr. 1 min.
Opened March 29th, 2002

MovieGoer Review

A female piano teacher at a prestigious Viennese school lives with her mother in a modest apartment yet is bedeviled by sadomasochist urges, including solitary forays to the local porn parlor, that lead her into an abusive and violent relat... MORE