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COMMUNITY RATING




Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel won best acting awards in Cannes last spring for their unblinking portrayal of the sadomasochistic relationship between an imperious, sexually repressed piano teacher at a Viennese conservatory and a handsome younger student who idolizes her. The powerful, deeply disturbing film is neither titillating soft-core porn nor a psychiatric case study, but a platform for the director, a serious moral theorist, to explore voyeurism (the audience's as well as the main character's). The movie also addresses sex and power, and the relationship between art and life. Be warned: The lovers' climactic encounter, in which Ms. Huppert is physically brutalized, is hard to watch (Holden)., The New York Times
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