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The Piano Teacher

           

The MM - "Bizarre story of a musically gifted French woman and her brief erotic affair with one of her students. Isabelle Huppert is a 40 something spinster who still lives with her mother and teaches piano both privately and at the local university. Isabelle is serious and stern but as the movie progresses, we discover that she is sexually deviant. Isabelle catches the eye of a young male student who auditions for her graduate level class, and decides that this is the person to act out her fantasies with. What unfolds is an absolutely shocking, and dysfunctional romance. The acting in this movie is excellent. Both Huppert and Benoît Magimel (the male student) won awards at Cannes, but this movie is as stoic, as bleak, and as desperate as its lead character"

 

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