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Film: All pain and no gain Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher has female masochism at its core. Fiona Morrow asks if there is a lesson in it for women
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Melodrama is a genre that often relies on a tacit assumption of
female masochism to drive through a plot of tortured romance - just
look at the thrill in Joan Fontaine's eyes as she hangs on to the
memory of a non-existent love in Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown
Woman. More recently, female masochism as a sexual urge rather than a
given of society has crossed over our cinema screens to varying
effect: Catherine Breillat's Romance took it seriously and succeeded,
while in Suspicious River, Lynn...
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Film: All pain and no gain; Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher has female masochism at its core. Fiona Morrow asks if there is a lesson in it for women.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Melodrama is a genre that often relies on a tacit assumption of female masochism to drive through a plot of tortured romance - just look at the thrill in Joan Fontaine's eyes as she hangs on to the memory of a non-existent love in Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman. More recently, female
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`PIANO TEACHER' PLAYS SICK, SAD SONG
Evansville Courier & Press
; If you don't like reading subtitles, don't see "The Piano Teacher." If you don't like pornography, don't see "The Piano Teacher." And if you don't like slow, somewhat dull movies without one likable character, well, you probably shouldn't see "The Piano Teacher." The movie is one of those bizarre
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Film: Hug of war `The Piano Teacher', Tuesday 12.05am Channel Four
The Independent on Sunday
; This year, a female masochist won the hearts of British cinema- goers, in Secretary. Back in 2001, a very different kind of self- harmer conquered Cannes in The Piano Teacher. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee in Secretary, was applauded for her warmth and - ultimately - an ability to make dreams come true.
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'Piano Teacher' strikes note of joylessness
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; 'Piano Teacher' strikes note of joylessness By DUANE DUDEK Journal Sentinel film critic Friday, July 12, 2002 It is difficult to make an ennobling work of art about an irredeemable topic or character without resorting to sentimentalism. "The Piano Teacher" does not have a sentimental bone in its
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'The Piano Teacher': Unraveling Chords
The Washington Post
; Isabelle Huppert delivers a taut, quietly explosive performance in "The Piano Teacher," Michael Haneke's harrowing cinematic portrait of a woman coming unhinged. Erika Kohut (Huppert) lives with her domineering mother (Annie Girardot) in Vienna, where she teaches piano at a conservatory. The locale
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