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The Piano Teacher (2002) Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Email this page to a friend   Production Photos: View Production Photos from The Piano Teacher (2002) The Critics: B+ 6 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B+ 419 ratings Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops... See Full Description Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation Running Time: 2 hrs. 10 min. Release Date: March 29, 2002 NY MPAA Rating: R for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language. Distributors: Kino International U.S. Box Office: $1,700,235 See Full Details Cast and Credits Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Anna Sigalevitch, Susanne Lothar Directed by: Michael Haneke Produced by: Michael Katz, Yvon Crenn, Christine Gozlan See Full Cast and Credits Production Photos         View All (4) Production Photos... Critical Consensus Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B+    BBC, Sandi Chaitram "...a dark, intelligent, and thought-provoking examination of female repression." more... B- filmcritic.com, Rachel Gordon "Older innocence collides with youthful wisdom in this slow-moving but consistently impressive and unsettling look at spinsterhood." more... B+ Rolling Stone, Peter Travers "...watching (Isabelle) Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting." more... B+ Slant Magazine, Ed Gonzalez "...less funny game than daunting debasement ritual." more... B More Critics Reviews... Sponsored Links (What's This?) Superpass: free monthly online movie subscription Access to Exclusive Movies Online. Get TV and Movies with Superpass. superpass.real.com