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The Piano Teacher
Film
FilmR1993
The Piano
Directed by Jane Campion
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. From TMDB
112 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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The Piano is a 1993 drama romance film, directed by Jane Campion, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill.
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60 of 112 · most liked firstThe Shark and the Piano (2001) short film written and directed by Gabriele Pennacchioli, Munich Animation
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sam Neill tributes will rightly focus on his achievements in Jurassic Park, The Piano, Hunt For the Wilderpeople etc. But he also gave what I think are three of the greatest horror movie performances of all time: Possession (1981), In The Mouth Of Madness (1994) and Event Horizon (1997) .
neutral · AI labelView post →Recently my family was away for the weekend and I had myself a big ol physical media film festival for one. Over two days I watched Thief, Slacker, Singin In The Rain, The Piano, Malcolm X, Near Dark and Wild At Heart. That was one great freaking weekend.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm seeing a lot of posts expressing shock that a prestigey new film adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson just quietly went up on Netflix, and it's a good reminder that awards-buzz hype and commentary remains a very specific bubble that never reaches a huge number of movie lovers.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m reminded that THE PIANO LESSON is now on Netflix. It’s a film I find to be enrapturing, and also evocative of the fissures that systemic erasure and dispossession can cause within a Black family. My review.
neutral · AI labelView post →"There he was, a Russian submarine captain in The Hunt for Red October....There he was in The Piano, an altogether different sort of movie in which he played an altogether different sort of character." And many more. ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social on Sam Neill:
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Sam Neill, inspiration for *so* many young paleontologists, bemused jilted vicious husband in the Piano (I adore that film) but lately wise gentle wizard-like confiding friend of pigs and ducks on his farm. I’m so sad he’s left the planet. Go well across the duck pond 💔
positive · AI labelView post →The African American Film Critics Association’s top 10 films of the year ✨ 1. Nickel Boys 2. Sing Sing 3. The Piano Lesson 4. Gladiator II 5. Wicked 6. Emilia Pérez 7. Albany Road 8. The Fire Inside 9. Exhibiting Forgiveness 10. Dahomey #AAFCAAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →4) The actors who missed--Daniel Craig for Queer, Danielle Deadwyler for The Piano Lesson, Angelina Jolie for Maria--testify to the difficulty of being the only campaigned element in a movie (though Maria did get a cinematography nomination). And Queer disappearing from theaters didn't help.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm fascinated by the pathology of people who comment on film posts with "I've never even heard of this movie," implying it's the movie's failing & not theirs. Just saw one such reply for THE PIANO. Okay then, so you're...ill-informed? Ignorant? Someone with zero interest in film? Perhaps go away?
neutral · AI labelView post →What is this fooling longing that drives me into wilderness? Movie : 📽️ The Piano Teacher (2001) Director: Michael Haneke 🌺 🌃 (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Karekare Beach, West Auckland. A black sand beach known for the shooting of the movie 'The Piano'.. #TidesOutTuesday #Landscape #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
neutral · AI labelView post →THE PIANO LESSON is on Netflix now, and it's maybe the best August Wilson film adaptation yet, anchored by a whole slew of terrific performances.
neutral · AI labelView post →thank you to @amcinematheque.bsky.social for screening The Piano, my first time seeing my favorite movie on the big screen 🥲
positive · AI labelView post →What a CV. Damien Thorn, Event Horizon, The Dish, Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. THE PIANO. One of those actors whose mere presence made it a better film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw The Piano in a movie theater with my parents as a tween. The horror!
negative · AI labelView post →they were playing a little bit of Michael Nyman's score for The Piano before the movie started, truly got my ass
positive · AI labelView post →#RIP “Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" to playing Holly Hunter's husband in "The Piano," has died. He was 78. ..had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma”
neutral · AI labelView post →Jane Campion (with scenes from her film "The Piano") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched “The Piano” just the other day - Saturday. Great Film Great Actor Great New Zealander One of everyone’s favourites
positive · AI labelView post →It should be noted Sam Neill and Gordon Toi’s relationship goes all the way back to when both were cast in the 1993 film The Piano
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite Sam Neil movie is Death in Brunswick closely followed by My Brilliant Career and The Piano RIP Sam. Sure was a brilliant career.
positive · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Jane Campion Birthday Edition: 4/30/54 Started in New Zealand, now 2-time Oscar winner. 89 Sweetie 90 An Angel at My Table 93 The Piano 21 The Power of the Dog And: Bright Star & Top of the Lake 📺. Barbara Hershey should have won supporting Oscar for Portrait of a Lady. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally watched The Piano Lesson and it is hands down the best acted film of the year. It unseated Exhuma as my favorite horror film and I think John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler give outstanding performances. It's on Netflix. Please watch it before you cast your ballots as critics.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️ - The Piano Lesson (2024) Dir. Malcolm Washington
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! Some older films. Some newer films. Another solid #LastFourWatched for me. What have you seen recently? They Drive By Night (1940) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Witches (2024) The Piano Lesson (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1960s: 1960: Shoot the Piano Player 1961: Yojimbo 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird 1963: The Haunting 1964: Kwaidan 1965: The Cincinnati Kid 1966: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1967: PlayTime 1968 and best in show: Night of the Living Dead 1969 [nice]: The Wild Bunch
neutral · AI labelView post →Jane Campion remembers Sam Neill: ‘He was radiating peace, beaming love’ - The Piano director shares her memories of the actor on set – and the last time she saw him in hospital www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
neutral · AI labelView post →“Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand actor whose career spanned Oscar winners and blockbusters such as The Piano and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78. The actor’s death was announced on Monday in a statement…No cause of death was given,” ❤️🩹🕯️ Source: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing back my interview with Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington about how The Piano Lesson has changed each of their lives. The film is now streaming on Netflix www.indiewire.com/features/int...
neutral · AI labelView post →The new film of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" is streaming on Netflix. I fear that awareness may be low. It's part of Denzel Washington's plan to produce August's complete Century Cycle. Note: there was a TV film of "Piano" in 1995, with Roc Dutton & Alfre Woodard.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is sad. 😞 New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78, his family says He is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren. www.denver7.com/obituaries/n...
neutral · AI labelView post →Every day I watch Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher. I watch it with my morning coffee and breakfast. Haters say "WATCH OTHER MEDIA WATCH A REAL MOVIE LIKE MANDALORIAN & GROGU BE AN ADULT" but i dont understand why i can't just watch Benoit Magimel getting jerked off in peace
neutral · AI labelView post →The Piano was such an elegant movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE PIANO (1993). Director: Jane Campion. Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel. Hunter & Anna Paquin won Oscars for this bleak portrait of arranged marriage & female agency in colonial New Zealand. Both tough & romantic. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 1110
positive · AI labelView post →Sam Neill – a life in pictures - The New Zealand actor who appeared in more than 150 roles including memorable turns in Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, has died aged 78 www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...
neutral · AI labelView post →A week of (mostly) Isabelle Huppert. After a revisit of THE PIANO TEACHER, I was reminded just how brilliant Huppert is. Hadn’t seen that film in 24 years. Just magnificent. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of a scene from the movie "The Piano"
neutral · AI labelView post →Incredible French actress Isabelle Huppert celebrates birthday, 3/16/1953. Featured ELLE in my Fearless Performance series (see below). Could also pick THE PIANO TEACHER (2001). Combative relationship with mom, dangerous sexual assignations, Huppert is cold, daring, uncompromising! #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →(if pressed to pick just one favorite movie, it might be The Piano)
positive · AI labelView post →This is a fun cello I painted for The Piano Guys -Avatar music video. 🧑🎨🎨 A cello 🎻 that would "glow" for the night shots. We filmed inside Disney. To make the piano keys glow, I printed individual vinyl keys, then painted them with UV overlay. 🧑🎨🙂 #film #cello #painting #movie #BSkyvideo #skymovie #🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor, the rest are Muppets: The Piano, keep Harvey Keitel
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Opening Night 80s - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 90s - The Celebration 00s - The Piano Teacher 10s - Phantom Thread 20s - Hedda #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →In my brain, The Piano, The Pianist, and The Piano Teacher are all the same movie
neutral · AI labelView post →What are your favorite movie adaptations of books or plays? One movie per day for 5 days. Day 1. The Piano. Jane Campion #FilmSky #MovieSky #booktofilm #Movies🎬 #BookSky 💙📚
neutral · AI labelView post →Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Jane Campion, and Sam Neill at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 celebrating the premiere of THE PIANO (which would go on to win that year's Palme d’Or). THE PIANO is now playing daily in a new 4K UHD restoration not to be missed! 🎟️: filmlinc.org/piano
neutral · AI labelView post →unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing. Today for our @allisfullofgore.bsky.social matinee we watched Michael Haneke's the Piano Teacher: a horror movie about parental pressure and expectations, gender, loneliness, vulnerability, kink, and male patriarchal anxiety.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you haven't watched 'The Piano', do. It's a wonderful film. Sam Neill RIP www.flicks.co.nz/features/thi...
positive · AI labelView post →#Music The heart asks pleasure first, by Michael Nyman. #Film The Piano, directed & written by Jane Campion, with actors Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill etcal. youtu.be/KBVNbto_SqI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Genuinely my favorite bit in any movie from 2025. Granted, The Piano Teacher is in my top 10 all time, so I’m biased.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Piano Teacher (2001) last night which is the most anti-twink movie of all time
neutral · AI labelView post →1000%. I mean, that person really thought the unhinged colonizer cuck who the film associates with Bluebeard is the good guy in The Piano?? what movie were they watching
neutral · AI labelView post →If I am going to the movie theatre to see one of my favorite movies of all time I am DRESSING UPPPPP (Jane Campion’s 1993 The Piano starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel)
positive · AI labelView post →The Piano. Not a date movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching: Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le Pianiste) Francois Truffaut, 1960 One of my favorite films by probably my favorite director. #Filmsky #FrancoisTruffaut #CharlesAznavour
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Holly Hunter, Ada McGrath, "The Piano" (directed by Jane Campion). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #hollyhunter #thepiano #janecampion
positive · AI labelView post →I shall go to my grave insisting that THE PIANO is a horror film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Piano is my favorite movie of all time... but here a few romantic ones that are good!!!
positive · AI labelView post →One movie that’s good is The Piano which there isn’t any Gifs for so here’s one of Tegan from Tegan and Sara
neutral · AI labelView post →@skeptyk.bsky.social and I are watching a movie with my favorite Sam Neill (RIP) performance in it. The Piano (1993) 🎹♥️🖤
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