MON JUN 1, 2026 7:00 PM

THE PIANO TEACHER

$22.00 (members-only)

Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with actor Isabelle Huppert
25th Anniversary
Opening Night of ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Isabelle Huppert: A Bleak Week Tribute’

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  • RELEASED IN: 2001
  • 130 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL HANEKE

ABOUT THE FILM:

In French and German with English subtitles.

Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged 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 young 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.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines.

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