The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Maginel. The film, also known as The Piano Player, is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Prize for Literature winner in 2004.

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	Kinoeye | Austrian film: Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1753 words) Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001) is a work of contemporary horror, its sensibility rooted less in genre (although this is relevant) than in a line of US and European cinema locating mental breakdown and social disorder precisely at the heart of Western bourgeois patriarchal civilization. La Pianiste's horror is within its understanding that mental illness flows axiomatically from commonly held assumptions about this life, conceived as an immutable, irreducible standard. La Pianiste is a summary statement on the collapse of gender relations in late capitalist civilization, while interrogating critically Raymond Williams' notion of the residual, figured in the greatness of Europe's cultural past. La république des livres: février 2005 (7492 words) La chute de l’homme dans le temps, la mort, la solitude, tout simplement. La ville de Bach, autre dieu des siens puisque dans les maisons de son enfance, son père organiste n'avait de pensées que pour le cantor. Il devrait être recu sous la coupole en principe le mois prochain.
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