![]() ![]() If anything, the instrument appears to possess her she reaches through the wooden slats to press the keys, as if checking that it’s still alive. Even the country around them looks like the bottom of the sea.Īda and Flora come ashore on a barren beach, with their few possessions-cases and trunks and a crate with Ada’s piano inside. What happens there, on the other hand, is so rich in strangeness that the whole movie feels like a voyage: the characters are jammed together and swept along by unmanageable forces toward a destination that they cannot imagine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writer and director, Jane Campion, herself comes from New Zealand (where most of her “An Angel at My Table” took place), and seems in a hurry to arrive and get her plot going on home soil. Not this one: all we see of the journey is the dark rushing hull of a boat, shot from below, splitting the water. For most movies, this would be a chance for a few maritime scenes-creaking ropes, salty skin, maybe the odd brigand. That, however, is the least of her problems of more immediate concern is the fact that he lives in New Zealand and she and her daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), must go and join him there. “The Piano” is set in the nineteenth century and stars Holly Hunter as Ada, a fierce Scottish mute with a shadowy past, now engaged to a man named Stewart (Sam Neill), whom she has never met. ![]()
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