The Piano (1993)
Overview : When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-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.
Release Date : May 18, 1993
Runtime : 120m
Companies : New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000
Countries : Australia, France, New Zealand
Keywords : adultery, secret love, beach, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, culture clash, sexuality, arranged marriage, strangeness, violent husband, new zealand, maori, settler, wilderness, mute, pianist, playing piano, woman director, sign languages, piano, 19th century, severed finger, mother daughter relationship