The Piano

Name: The Piano
Genre: Romance, Music, Drama
Released: 1993
Duration: 121 min
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker

Jane Campion19932h 1mRomance, Music, Drama

Why we chose it

Jane Campion became the first woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and eleven-year-old Anna Paquin won an Oscar for the same film. Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel circle each other in a damp New Zealand colony, where she won’t give an inch and he can’t look away.

Synopsis

In the mid-nineteenth century Ada, who hasn’t spoken since she was six, is sent from Scotland to New Zealand to join a husband she has never met, taking her daughter and her piano with her. Her husband leaves the piano on the beach with no intention of going back for it. A neighbour trades him a plot of land for it, then offers Ada a deal: she can win it back, one key at a time.