The Piano Teacher (2001) Criterion 1080p BluRay HEVC EAC3-SARTRE + Extras

In this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world of classical music. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codepen­dent relation­ship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her mas­ochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

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Extras

• Michael Haneke - In this brand new video interview, Michael Haneke discusses the some of the social boundaries that The Piano Teacher bends (with excellent comments about the difference between pornography, obscenity and dramatic art), the reason(s) why he considers violence in contemporary cinema to be the real 'pornography' and the hypocrisy that tolerates it; the socio-cultural environment in which the original material that inspired the film emerged; the the casting of Isabelle Huppert and the film's production history; the shooting of some of the most controversial sequences; etc. The interview was conducted exclusively for Criterion in Vienna in May 2017. In German, with optional English subtitles. (30 min. 720p).

• Selected-Scene Commentary - This audio commentary features Isabelle Huppert and was recorded in 2001. In French, optional English subtitles. (51 min. 720p).

1. The Perfect Love
2. Presence
3. Sacrifice
4. No Control
5. Not Enough Suffering
6. Proof
7. A Mutant

• Isabelle Huppert - In this brand new video interview, Isabelle Huppert recalls her work with Michael Haneke on The Piano Teacher, the 'different and difficult' nature of her character, the type of love she demands, her interactions with Benoît Magimel, etc. The interview was conducted exclusively for Criterion in Vienna in May 2017. In French, with optional English subtitles. (12 min. 720p).

• Postsync sessions - Presented here is raw behind-the-scenes footage of audio postsync sessions for The Piano Teacher featuring Michael Haneke and Isabelle Huppert. In French, with optional English subtitles. (20 min, 720p).

• Trailer - original trailer for The Piano Teahcer. In French, with optional English subtitles. (2 min. 720p).