In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.
STARS.........: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel DIRECTOR......: Michael Haneke WRITERS.......: Michael Haneke, Elfriede Jelinek GENRE.........: Drama, Romance METASCORE.....: 79 TOMATOMETER...: 73 IMDB RATING...: 7.5/10 44,463 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686 RUNTIME.......: 2h 11mn SIZE..........: 4.93 GB VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC ([email protected]) BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080 ASPECT RATIO..: 1.85:1 FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO.........: English E-AC3 3.0 384kbps SUBTITLES.....: ENG CHAPTERS......: Yes SOURCE........: Criterion Blu Ray ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2018-01-09
NOTE: There were only a couple short blips on the rears and nothing on the LFE so I didn't encode them.
Extras
• Michael Haneke
• Selected-Scene Commentary
• Isabelle Huppert
• Postsync sessions
• Trailer