“Isabelle Huppert is stupendous.”
—Susan Sontag

“Huppert is indeed extraordinary to watch as her face and body express so much while also retaining a certain inscrutability … THE PIANO TEACHER is a chaperoned peek into the mind of one of civilization’s ‘discontents.’”
—The Austin Chronicle

Academy Award®–winning director Michael Haneke (AMOUR, FUNNY GAMES) turns his clinical eye on Erika (Isabelle Huppert), a repressed middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives under the thumb (and roof) of her domineering mother, the metronomic tedium of her life broken only by her nightly visits to sex shops. That is until her seduction at the hands of a handsome, young student (Benoît Magimel) leads her to a violent and destructive sexual awakening.