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The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
Feb 11, 1994 · A mute woman travels to New Zealand with her daughter and piano for an arranged marriage, but faces a forbidden attraction to a farm worker. The film won three Oscars and features a haunting soundtrack by Michael Nyman.
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) and her young daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach.
Nov 19, 1993 · A woman who cannot speak communicates through her piano and sign language on a bleak New Zealand coast. She faces a harsh marriage, a seductive neighbor and a mysterious fate in this Gothic drama by Jane Campion.
Nov 26, 2019 · Why The Piano is the greatest film directed by a woman. 25 November 2019. By Hannah Strong, Features correspondent. Miramax / Alamy. Jane Campion’s stunning 1993 classic topped BBC Culture’s poll...
May 14, 2015 · Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters. As pent-up emotions of rage and...
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor George Baines, who agrees...
