From Fri. 16.1. to Sun. 18.1. the 23rd Mannheim Film Seminar will take place - the topic is the filmmaker Jane Campion, who will be examined in detail under the motto "In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory". Information and registration: https://cinema-quadrat.de/filmseminar/

THE PIANO

AUS/NZL/FRA 1993. D: Jane Campion. D: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin. 121 min. DF. FSK: 12

A great poetic melodrama about female self-discovery and liberation: In the 19th century, the mute widow Ada is married off from Scotland to New Zealand. The new, unknown husband is indifferent to her, her daughter and her piano - the neighbor, on the other hand, is interested in Ada's piano playing. And for Ada herself. Ada, trapped in a speechless body, finds herself in a fateful love triangle between two men, between passion and rudeness, between piano music and the jungle: "All components work together to create atmospheric density, intimacy with the characters and their entanglements and a suggestive flow of the narrative." (Filmdienst)
DAS PIANO has been awarded the Palme d'Or and three Oscars, among others.