131 mins | France-Austria-Germany 2001 | Subtitles Director: Michael Haneke Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoît Magimel Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered - unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. “It haunts, horrifies, startles and fascinates.” Urban Cinefile
Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective “Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth,” says Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, whose challenging work has garnered two Palme d'Or awards and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Curzon Film and Triskel Arts Centre presents an eight-film retrospective of Haneke’s films, the first four (CODE UNKNOWN, the original FUNNY GAMES, TIME OF THE WOLF and THE PIANO TEACHER) will be screened from 29 June-2 July, while the second four (AMOUR, BENNY’S VIDEO, HAPPY END and HIDDEN)
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