The Piano
120 minutes,
New Zealand/Australia/France (1993), 15
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(4.6 / 24 votes)
(4.6 / 24 votes)
Award-winning, heavily-symbolic tale of a mute woman and her daughter taken to New Zealand during the 19th century to provide a colonist with a family
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The Piano: Jane Campion's The Piano is a scrumptious costume drama of the colour-supplement school of filmmaking. Every distinctive element quickly became an advertising cliché: huge wide shots of beaches; indigenous peoples framed in front of lush foliage; Michael Nyman brought in to give the impression that emotional profundity lay somewhere in the images (although his score is a classic in itself)...
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