Rating
7.4 The Film
The Piano
Silence affects everyone in the end.
The Story
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.
intense dramatic intimate mother daughter relationship severed finger 19th century piano sign languages woman director playing piano pianist mute wilderness settler maori new zealand violent husband strangeness arranged marriage sexuality culture clash isolation love triangle jealousy beach secret love adultery
Gallery
The Stills.
