The Piano Teacher Critic Reviews
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Seems less like a fictional story than a tour through Freud's forgotten files.Read the full review
Powerful and outrageous.Read the full review
The Piano Teacher will surely be too strong for some audiences and is best left to those who like films that take big risks and get away with them.Read the full review
A viscerally punishing study of repression and masochism, carried out with the utmost discretion and chilling reserve.Read the full review
A disconcertingly assured tango between tenderness and brutality.Read the full review
There is an old saying: Be careful what you ask for, because you might get it. The Piano Teacher has a more ominous lesson: Be especially careful with someone who has asked for you.Read the full review
Watching Haneke's film is, aptly enough, a challenge and a punishment. But watching Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting.Read the full review
Has the feel of a clinical case study elevated into a subject of aesthetic and philosophical discourse.Read the full review
The audience for this grimly disquieting film is, or ought to be, self-selecting.Read the full review
Whatever valid points are being explored are hopelessly clouded by the film's unwavering earnestness as it descends into silliness and excess.Read the full review
