Synopsis
Ada, her nine year old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteen century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tatooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays ; one black key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex emotional sexual bond remarkable for its naive passion and frightening disregard for limits...
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Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Ciby 2000
- Foreign production company : Jan Chapman Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Claude Fleury
- Screenwriter : Jane Campion
- Director of Photography : Stuart Dryburgh
- Music Composer : Michael Nyman
- Editor : Veronika Jenet
- Sound Recordist : Lee Smith
- Costume designer : Janet Patterson
- Line Producer : Alain Depardieu
- Press Attachés (film) : Pascal Launay, Jean-Pierre Vincent
- Production Designer : Andrew Mcalpine
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Love
- Production language : English, Sign language, Maori
- Coproducer countries : Australia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1993
- French release : 19/05/1993
- Runtime : 2 h
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 82.604
- Visa issue date : 05/07/1993
- Approval : No
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby A
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