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www.toxicuniverse.com - : Jane Campion’s The Piano is a rich look at various forms of love. Set in a bare, rural society, the focus is on a slow, steady evolution of extremely human characters toward whom it is difficult to feel apathetic. The emphasis on the characters' roles and relationships to each other muddy the waters when it comes to liking or disliking any of them. more...
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www.movie-vault.com - : The Piano is about a mute woman who has been set up in an arranged marriage to a man in New Zealand. She speaks through her beloved piano, and through sign-language translated by her young daugther. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : ''We can't leave the piano!'' Anna Paquin's precociousness and grating voice may have turned a lot of people away from The Piano, but her Oscar a few months later redeemed her somewhat. Paquin has since grown up, but her debut film is unforgettable: The haunting tragedy-with-happy-ending of an 1800s-era mute woman essentially exiled to New Zealand with her emotionally dead husband. Jane Campion does her best directing ever, working a miracle out of the bizarre Harvey Keitel, with whom Holly Hunter's Ada falls in love. Forbidden romance on a deserted, cold, and rainy island? Sign me up. more...
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