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La pianiste (The Piano Teacher) (2001)

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A sexually repressed piano teacher engages in destructive relationship with a student. The woman, Erika, deals with her sexual feelings through voyeurism, visiting sex shops, and self-injury.

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La pianiste (The Piano Teacher)
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Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel
Rating: Unrated
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La pianiste

The novel isn't bad.  Some of the language is quite lovely.  The movie changes a lot of the details and loses some of the subtext.  I think this is the novel that won the Noble Prize for Jelinek.  I can see why, but I can also see why so many people think giving this controversial piece such a high honor was a questionable - putting it more politely than the critics have - decision.