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The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
Feb 11, 1994 · The Piano: Directed by Jane Campion. With Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin. In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Jane Campion
- 1994-02-11
Nov 19, 1993 · Jane Campion, who wrote and directed "The Piano," does not handle this situation as a man might. She understands better the eroticism of slowness and restraint, and the power that Ada gains by pretending to care nothing for Baines.
Ada and her daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), are sold to a frontiersman (Sam Neill) in New Zealand in the mid-1800s. The piano is Ada's only release from a society that doesn't value her.
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- Jane Campion
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- Holly Hunter
Jane Campion. Holly Hunter. Harvey Keitel. Sam Neill. Winner of three 1993 Oscars®, including Best Actress (Holly Hunter). Passions erupt when a mute pianist (Hunter) is desired by two men - her callous husband (Sam Neill) and a cryptic, intense neighbor (Harvey Keitel).
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Jane Campion. The Piano. With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d’Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through silence in her Academy Award–winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano.