Film
The Piano
Sunday, March 3–Tuesday, March 5
(1993, DCP, 121m) dir Jane Campion w/Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin. A mute woman (Hunter) is sent to New Zealand with her daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage. When piano lessons with George (Keitel) lead to a torrid affair, only tragedy can follow.
At Perisphere, Sophie Durbin explores the tactile eroticism of Jane Campion’s The Piano, and Veda Lawrence draws out the complexity of Victorian feminine desire by examining the film in dialogue with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
SUN 6:45 MON/TUE 7:00 9:15
