A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Adaptation of Elfriede Jellinek's novel is a harrowing study of a despicable character, staged in a hieratic style with an amazing central performance, but without any irony supposedly present in the novel.
Halliwell (no star): "A gifted director and actress go astray in this intense, unlovely drama; if it has a point, it is that sex and music make unreasonable demands on those who take them seriously."
Maltin ***1/2: "Magnificent, and decidedly adult study...Huppert has the role of her career as a woman with unusual views on intimacy and sex; costar Magimel matches her intensity. Harrowing and haunting, but not entirely humorless."
[ Nota bene: I really didn't see any humor in it.]
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