The Piano Teacher (2001)
<div><i>Part of <a href="https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/bleak-week/">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a>, a weeklong festival spotlighting some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity.</i></div><div><br></div>Michael Haneke's portrait of Erika Kohut — a Vienna Conservatory professor played by Isabelle Huppert — studies a life in which repression has become indistinguishable from identity. Adapted from Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's novel and winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, the film sparked a reckoning in European art cinema with how female sexual interiority had — and hadn't — been put on screen. When a gifted young student pursues her, Erika responds in ways that turn intimacy into something colder and more destructive, and Huppert refuses both sympathy and judgment, holding the film open to something more uncomfortable than either.DramaPT2H11MRated 18A2026-06-13Isabelle Huppert
Annie Girardot
Benoît Magimel
Michael Haneke
Alain Sarde
Marin Karmitz
Veit Heiduschka
The Piano Teacher (2001)"The Piano Teacher (2001)"Showtimes
June 13, 9:20 pm
June 16, 6:00 pm
June 17, 8:50 pm
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