The Piano
A mute Scottish woman sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage pours her feeling into her piano and into an affair with the man who possesses it.
Academy Award Best Original Screenplay 1994 won
Ada, a Scottish woman who has not spoken since childhood, is sent with her young daughter and her piano to New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her new husband leaves the piano on the beach, and the settler who takes it draws her into a bargain that becomes a charged affair.
The film routes desire entirely through the piano and the body, so that repression, fetish and a wordless erotic language stand in for speech. For a therapist it is a study of elective mutism and of what a person expresses when words are withheld. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1994.
Details
- 1993
- New Zealand
- English
- Film