
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.
- 7.4
- 1993
- Released
- 2h 0m

Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
Cliff Curtis
Mana
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
Ian Mune
Reverend
Geneviève Lemon
Nessie
Pete Smith
Hone
Bruce Allpress
Blind Piano Tuner
Rose McIver
Angel
Verity George
Bluebeard's Wife
Stephen Papps
Bluebeard
Karen Colston
Bluebeard's Wife (Miss Palmer)
Eddie Campbell
Seaman
Te Whatanui Skipwith
Chief Nihe
Tungia Baker
Hira
Neil Gudsell
Tahu
Greg Mayor
Tipi

Released
en
$7,000,000.00
$40,200,000.00
- #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
- #intimate
- #dramatic
- #intense
Reviews

Holly Hunter is on good form here as "Ada", a mute who is adept with her piano. Soon to be married to a Kiwi farmer, she sails with her daughter to his remote home where he "Alisdair" (Sam Neill) seems to be rather indifferent to her presence. The same cannot be said for their neighbour "Baines" (Harvey Keitel) though, and he engineers a land for piano swap with her husband as a prelude to invitin

**A great movie.** For me, this is one of the great films of 1993. The story is not pretty, and we could almost call it “love in times of mud”, not only because of the continuous rain and the amount of mud on the set, but mainly because of the rudeness and brutality of the male characters. However, the film is very good, it's engaging, captivating and really deserves to be brought back these da
Jane Campion's third feature film, THE PIANO is a historical drama that tells of a Scottish woman, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), who is married off to a colonist in New Zealand that she has never met. Ada is mute, a development that mysteriously came upon her in childhood, but she is a virtuoso pianist and her cherished instrument is one way she communicates her feelings to the world. As Ada and her











