Sunday | October 28, 2007 3:00 pm

The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)

Screening on Film

Directed by Michael Haneke.
With Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot.
France, 2001, 35mm, color, 131 min.
French with English subtitles.

Isabelle Huppert provides a shocking portrait as a middle-aged piano teacher who suffers at the hands of her overbearing mother (Girardot). When she is pursued by a devoted student (Magimel), her life takes an unsettling turn as she reveals her masochistic desires. Huppert and Magimel received top honors at Cannes for their dark performances.

October 19 – 28, 2007

Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

February 20

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins