The Piano
- Drama
- Romance
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-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.
- Directed by
- Jane Campion
- Written by
- Jane Campion
Cast
Holly Hunter
Harvey Keitel
Sam Neill- Anna Paquin
Cliff Curtis- Kerry Walker
- Ian Mune
- Geneviève Lemon
- Pete Smith
Bruce Allpress- Rose McIver
- Verity George
Keywords
- dramatic
- mother daughter relationship
- intense
- jealousy
- love triangle
- arranged marriage
- playing piano
- 19th century
- woman director
- culture clash
- forbidden love
- isolation
- piano
- domestic violence
- secret love
- pianist
- sexuality
- intimate
- beach
- settler
- adultery
- severed finger
- sign languages
- wilderness
- mute
- new zealand
- violent husband
- strangeness
- maori
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