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Play it again.('The Piano Teacher')
Professor Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert), who gives piano lessons to advanced students at the Vienna Conservatory, stands at the window of her studio and hurls thunderbolts at the teen-age musicians. When a talented boy hits a clinker, she says, "A wrong note in Beethoven is better than a bad interpretation," which, she implies, is his real crime. Erika, who is both the heroine and the villain of Michael Haneke's audaciously brilliant "The Piano Teacher," has a masklike face and an air of indefinable hauteur. Again and again, she tells her students that they are spiritually inadequate, and though they may tremble and weep, they do not protest. It never occurs to anyone at ...
- `The Piano Teacher'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pols, Mary F. May 2, 2002 700+ words
...stern, fortysomething piano teacher, Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert...sacrifices, not you, Erika tells her. Keep that...that hangs over "The Piano Teacher" and keeps us thoroughly...sensibilities in "The Piano Teacher." Erika visits video viewing...
- `The Piano Teacher'.
- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) May 1, 2002 700+ words
...stern, fortysomething piano teacher, Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert...sacrifices, not you, Erika tells her. Keep that...that hangs over "The Piano Teacher" and keeps us thoroughly...sensibilities in "The Piano Teacher." Erika visits video viewing...
- Disturbing, adult lessons in 'The Piano Teacher'.(LIFE - ENTERTAINMENT)(MOVIES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 24, 2002 700+ words
...title character, Erika Kohut, is a Viennese piano teacher. Actress Isabelle...her face and body. Erika's attraction to...acting in French. But Erika is a distinctive...STARS TITLE: "The Piano Teacher" ("La Pianiste...
- The Piano Teacher. .(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sharrett, Christopher September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher shows Isabelle Huppert...eroticism in the mind of Erika Kohut, Huppert's tormented...a cult audience. The Piano Teacher is by far Haneke's most...dynamics that produce it. Erika Kohut (Huppert's performance...
- `Piano Teacher' plays a bruising, passionate tune.(VARIETY / FREETIME)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Covert, Colin June 28, 2002 700+ words
...Staff Writer `The Piano Teacher" is as elegant...Stern, chic Prof. Erika Kohut (Isabelle...at first, "The Piano Teacher" builds to a level...make us closer to Erika than we would care...film. REVIEW The Piano Teacher Three and a half...
- PIANO LESSONS.(Isabelle Huppert's work in the motion picture, 'The Piano...
- Magazine article from: WWD Haskell, Robert March 21, 2002 700+ words
...the context of "The Piano Teacher." The film, which...tells the grim story of Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed...psychopath. "I don't see Erika as a perpetrator...will sympathize with Erika Kohut, which is partly...Attraction.") "`The Piano Teacher' is definitely a movie...
- French star Huppert becomes mad 'Piano Teacher'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Schaefer, Stephen June 1, 2002 700+ words
...audiences, the controversial "The Piano Teacher," opening Friday, is it. Yet...provocative, explicit novel, "The Piano Teacher" casts 47-year-old Huppert as Erika Kohut, a brilliant piano teacher who not so much teaches as lords...
- Monday tv: FILM REVIEW; On a Schu thing; The Piano Teacher Ch4,...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) August 30, 2003 700+ words
...insanity. Thirtysomething piano teacher Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert...the more determined, and Erika eventually relents to his...or over, her life. The Piano Teacher is not only about Erika's galloping neurosis...
