The Piano

Name: The Piano
Director: Jane Campion
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1993
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 7.377

Silence affects everyone in the end.

1993·Directed by Jane Campion·3.7·2h 0m

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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.

Recommended by 6 People

“Jane Campion's The Piano is a masterpiece. Holly Hunter's performance is so extraordinary.”

Rose Byrne

Actor

“One of my favorite movies of all time. The score is something that you'll never forget, this beautiful, lonely piano score.”

Jodie Foster

Actor, Director

“It taught me to be quiet. Jane does that—she sits with people. Where Cassavetes is moving it all around, Jane is still, and she taught me to be still with the camera.”