Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

raul_nib Haneke's adaptation of austriac Nobel Winner novelist Elfriede Jelinek will inevitably leave an impression on you be it a good one or not. The film follows piano teacher Erika Kohut, a middle aged woman who is torn between her abusive, possessive mother's expectations and her own personal desires. This,however changes when she meets Walter Klemmer, a young and extremely competitive music enthusiast who takes an interest on her. From them on you see Erika slowly leaving her confortable zone of power as a strict and harsh piano teacher to a place of complete vulnerability as she shows her most inner hidden desires to Klemmer. From the beautiful soundtrack,sometimes accompanied by real playing by the lead actors, to the ambiguous commentary on male-female sexual power relations,the breath-taking acting done by lead Isabelle Huppert,the gut punching, stomach turning climax and ending segments;La Pianiste not only makes justice to Elfriede's novel but also in some ways surpasses it.

corne-g This movie is an evil vortex sucking everything positive out of life as we know it. It leaves you feeling offended, disturbed and utterly disappointed. I was appalled at how many awards it has actually won. It directly indicates that critics and the public accept and applaud child abuse, sadomasochism, incest, the bludgeoning of women and then raping them, jealousy turning into assault, pornography, slavery & elitism. The slogan of this movie should be: "Love = Rape". The marketing department fell off the bus when they took the motto "Sex Sells" and turned it into "Rape Sells". Don't allow this movie to severely distort your view of what love should be between a man and a woman. How can one trust critics and their ratings on any other movie if filth like this is praised so much!? Real life is already teeming with so much evil, stealing our joy. Upon watching this drivel you are giving evil permission to once again, pilfer what little joy you have left, and slapping you in the face with it. Why would anyone in their right mind want to waste more than 2 hours of their time just to feel bereft of any positivity?

Ezzat Goushegir Seeking emotional protection from our disturbed, corrupt, violent world, I tried to take refuge in Michael Haneke films; in his poetic and philosophical view and deep analysis of human complexities. I could compare his world viewpoints to Ingmar Bergman, a filmmaker which I would always enjoy being sunk in his creative world. I immensely admire Haneke 's recent film "Amour"; a film which would invite the spectators to take journey into the core of the matters and to the dark maze of human soul. It's said that through insanity, humans would sometimes find sanity, truth, love and empathy.I recently watched The White Ribbon and The Piano Teacher. My predication was that these films were somehow prophetic reflections of a new rise of totalitarian era. A suffocating new historical period!Yes, they indeed, are!I found both movies the White Ribbon and The Piano Teacher disturbing. Learning about these violent realities, the audience would need to get away from the harshness and be surrounded by the beauty of nature, serene environment, and splendor dreams. To deal with reality we need dreams! The Piano Teacher reflects the outlook of 80s, 90s and early 2000s where the notion of sexuality was dominant.

Upasna Gopalakrishnan This movie was a pretty intense experience for me. It begins with a look at the life of Erika Kohut, a respected music professor, who lives with her controlling mother. She is pursued by another talented young man named Walter Klemmer, and they soon enter into a Dominant/Submissive relationship. Erika is very sexually repressed and unhappy, mainly thanks to her mother, who keeps check on her like one would on a baby.In many ways this movie reminds me of The Black Swan.Her relationship with Walter, who is not so normal himself, soon deteriorates and and the movie ends with Erika cutting herself, probably with more self harm to come. I only wish the movie had been longer and had let us learn more about Erika, especially concerning her relationship with her father, who lives in a lunatic asylum.