The Piano [Blu-ray]

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Overview

In Jane Campion's haunting 19th-century romance, Holly Hunter stars as Ada, a mute woman whose father offers her hand in marriage to a New Zealand farmer named Stewart (Sam Neill). Leaving her Scottish home with little more than her young daughter Fiona (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano, Ada is forced into a loveless marriage, but soon enters into a clandestine affair with Stewart's neighbor George Baines (Harvey Keitel).

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2009
UPC:	9339065002317
Original Release:	1993
Source:	Icon
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	77,527

Special Features

Audio commentary with the director & producer; Inside the Piano; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Holly Hunter	Ada
Harvey Keitel	George Baines
Anna Paquin	Flora
Sam Neill	Stewart
Kerry Walker	Tante Morag
Tungia Baker	Hira
Ian Mune	Reverend
Peter Dennett	Head Seaman
Te Whatanui Skipwith	Chief Nihe
Pete Smith	Hone
Bruce Allpress	Blind Piano Tuner
Cliff Curtis	Mana
Mahina Tunui	Meni (Mission Girl)
Hori Ahipene	Muturu
Genevi?ve Lemon	Nessie,Actor
Kirsten Batley	Marama
Carla Rupuha	Heni
Gordon Hatfield	Te Kori
Mere Boynton	Chief Nihe's Daughter
Tania Burney	Mahina
Annie Edwards	Te Tiwha
Harina Haare	Roimata
Christina Harimate	Parearau
Steve Kanuta	Amohia
P.J. Karauria	Taua
Sonny Kirikiri	Tame
Alain Makiha	Kahutia
Greg Mayor	Tipi
Neil Gudsell	Tahu
Guy Moana	Kohuru
Alison Barrett	Actor
Susie Figgis	Actor
Diana Rowan	Actor
Eru Potaka-Dewes	Pitama
Greg Johnson	Seaman
Jon Brazier	Wedding Photographer
Karen Colston	Bluebeard's Wife
Julian Lee	Cloud Carrier Boy
George Boyle	Flora's Grandfather
Stephen Hall	Seaman
Michael Nyman	Composer

Technical Credits

Jane Campion	Screenwriter
Jan Chapman	Producer
Alison Barrett	Casting
Alain Depardieu	Executive Producer,Producer
Susie Figgis	Casting
Gethin Creagh	Sound Mixer,Sound Effects
Lee Smith	Sound/Sound Designer
Diana Rowan	Casting
Roger Cowland	Special Effects
Steve Burgess	Sound Effects
Jeanine Chiavlo	Sound Effects
Robert Deschaine	Sound Effects
Simon Hewitt	Sound Effects
Jason Docherty	Special Effects
Robert Bruce	Stunts

From the B&N Reads Blog

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Editorial Reviews

Not just another costume drama, Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) lushly visualizes the emotional complexities of a 19th century woman's sexual awakening. Mute in a world that silences women, Ada has to find other means to express her responses to the untamed New Zealand landscape, her stiff husband Stewart, and the sensualist Baines. The elliptical narrative minimizes rational explanations in favor of visceral and emotional effects, often structured around parallels between Ada and the natural environment that surrounds her. While Ada's cumbersome 19th century clothes are initially at odds with the muddy forest, Campion reveals Ada's adaptability with a hoop skirt tent, and her reservoirs of passion with the parallel between braids of her hair and forest vines. Stewart, living amidst burnt-out trees, cannot fathom Ada's attachment to her piano, while natural man Baines understands her ardor when he hears and watches her on the open beach. Baines' piano blackmail is transformed into Ada's only path to selfhood; it is a meeting of two rebellious minds and bodies glimpsed voyeuristically by a culture that cannot comprehend its own erotic instincts. Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, The Piano received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning Best Original Screenplay for Campion, Best Supporting Actress for Anna Paquin's resentful daughter, and Best Actress for Holly Hunter's finely tuned Ada.