How disturbing is the piano teacher?

“The Piano Teacher” offers an unpleasant and traumatic experience to sit through. Calling it ‘disturbing’ will be a massive understatement. It’s been a few weeks, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it yet. The problem is that these thoughts are no less than night terrors.

What language is the piano teacher in?

French
German
The Piano Teacher/Languages

What is the plot of the piano teacher?

Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives at home, cooped up with her mother, whose influence Erika escapes only on her regular visits to porn cinemas and peepshows. Her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths. Until one day, one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her…The Piano Teacher / Film synopsis

Where is the piano teacher set?

Vienna conservatory
It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel).

How old are the characters in the piano teacher?

London: Serpent’s Tale, 1989. Thirty-eight year old Erika Kohut, piano teacher in a Vienna conservatory, is not her own person. She been shaped, even brutalized into a “safe” form for her domineering mother.

What does the end of The Piano Teacher mean?

In the end, Walter says she is the one who has driven him to their final, violent encounter. The scene leaves ambiguous who has hurt whom—whether what has happened is a disaster for Erika or a consummation. Haneke, who is as cold and cruel and expressionless as his favorite actress, would never tell us the answer.

Why does Boy Willie not sell the piano?

Boy Willie Charles arrives at his sister’s home in Pittsburgh determined to sell the family piano which they have inherited. He wants to buy land in Mississippi where his family was once enslaved. Berniece refuses to sell the piano, because it represents the family’s past.

How old is Doaker in The Piano Lesson?

forty-seven years old
Doaker is tall and thin and forty-seven years old. He spent his life working for the railroad. He functions as the play’s testifier, recounting the piano’s history.