1993 2h 0m Jane Campion

The Piano

Name: The Piano
Genre: Romance, Drama, Music & Musical, Made in Europe
Released: 1993
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin

★ 7.5 IMDb

Romance Drama Music & Musical Made in Europe

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Writer Jane Campion

Cast Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin

DP Stuart Dryburgh

Essays and Criticism

On Jane Campion

A Pleasure to Watch: Jane Campion’s Narrative Cinema by Sue Gillet, Screening the Past “Authorising” Jane Campion:Jane Campionby Deb Verhoeven by Lucy Bolton, Senses of Cinema The autistic ciphers of Jane Campion by Louis Spong, Little White Lies

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Awards & Festivals

Selection 1993 Cannes Film Festival

Won BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Won Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay