Erika Kohut is a Masochistic piano teacher in her early forties who is lonely and alienated until one of her students goes out of his way to seduce her to have sex with him. Then an illicit affair was born.
19 August 1977, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
10 July 1952, Vienna, Austria
1958, Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
June 11, 1979 in Vienna, Austria
11 May 1974, Paris, France
15 November 1960, Hamburg, Germany
17 September 1969, Rum, Tyrol, Austria
30 January 1967, Bronx, New York, USA
24 May 1941, Arad, Romania
16 March 1953, Paris, France
13 April 1978, Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy
1972, Mödling, Austria
31 August 1944, Vienna, Austria
25 June 1953, Trier-Eitelsbach, Germany
December 17, 1980 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
6 July 1980, Paris, France
2 March 1956, Salzburg, Austria
February 10, 2010
[Huppert gives] the single finest performance I have ever seen her give, and therefore almost by default one of the best of the decade.
August 30, 2002
A gripping psychological thriller that, while lacking the power of Funny Games, is still the work of a master.
August 16, 2002
It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one.
November 04, 2002
This is a penetrating, deeply disturbing examination of desire and loneliness, of desperation and self-denial.
July 20, 2002
A striking, brilliant film with extraordinary performances -- and Huppert's acting is heartrending.
February 13, 2003
If genital mutilation, rape, incest and twisted acts of sexual gratification are your thing, then this is the film for you. Any takers?
January 30, 2003
It's a harrowing, difficult film that's only for the most adventurous art-house movie fans.
August 13, 2004
A revolting and shocking work devoid of redemption and purpose.
July 28, 2006
A film of Artaudian cruelty, and a boundary-breaker in the cinema's exploration of its own erotic and artisanal id.
November 20, 2002
[Isabelle Huppert] outdoes herself.
September 19, 2002
It is depressing, ruthlessly pained and depraved, the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound.
June 21, 2002
Is like The Graduate remade by David Lynch; it's no picnic to watch, but you can't look away.

