The Piano

The Piano

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Release Date

5/18/1993

Runtime

120 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$40,200,000

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A visually lush and psychologically intense portrait of a mute woman's awakening through passion and music in a harsh, isolated landscape. The film welds sensual romance with creeping dread, as desire collides with domestic violence and cultural displacement.

Mood

RomanticTenseMelancholic

Themes

LoveFreedomIdentityFamilyColonialism

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyNaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Linear

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