Fresh
Sweetie and An Angel at My Table have taught us to expect startling as well as beautiful things from Jane Campion, and this assured and provocative third feature (1993) offers yet another lush parable.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Piano
Silence affects everyone in the end.
1993 · 2h · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jane Campion
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Campion never underestimates the power physical obsession exerts over human souls, and, for once, a modern film treats erotic passion honestly.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Ms. Campion somehow suggests states of mind you've never before recognized on the screen.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
[An] evocative, powerful, extraordinarily beautiful film from the Australian director Jane Campion.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I've seen.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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