

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Acting
Huppert's face does more than most scripts.
Direction
Haneke removes the score. You provide the anxiety.
Writing
Adaptation so faithful it hurts—literally.

Director
Michael Haneke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel later dated in real life. Method acting? Cosmic irony? You decide.
Elfriede Jelinek, who wrote the novel, refused to attend the Cannes premiere—she found Haneke's adaptation too sympathetic to Erika. Haneke's response: 'She's wrong.'
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