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The Piano

January 01, 1970

This article is about the film. For the instrument, see Piano. For other uses, see Piano (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the film The Pianist (2002 film).

The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.

The Piano
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJane Campion
Written byJane Campion
Produced byJan Chapman
Starring
CinematographyStuart Dryburgh
Edited byVeronika Jenet
Music byMichael Nyman
Production
companies
Distributed byBAC Films (France)
Miramax[1] (Australia and New Zealand; through Buena Vista International[2] and Roadshow Film Distributors[3])
Release dates
  • 15 May 1993 (1993-05-15) (Cannes)
  • 19 May 1993 (1993-05-19) (France)
  • 5 August 1993 (1993-08-05) (Australia)
Running time
117 minutes
CountriesNew Zealand
Australia
France
LanguagesEnglish
Māori
British Sign Language
BudgetUS$7 million[4]
Box officeUS$140 million[5]

A co-production between New Zealand, Australia, and France, The Piano was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$140.2 million worldwide (equivalent to $295.7 million in 2023) against its US$7 million budget (equivalent to $14.8 million in 2023). It was noted for its crossover appeal beyond the arthouse circuit to attracting mainstream popularity, largely due to rave reviews and word of mouth.[6]

Hunter and Paquin both received high praise for their performances. In 1993, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Campion the first female director to receive the award. It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994: Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin, and Best Original Screenplay for Campion. Paquin was 11 years old at the time and remains the second-youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category.

The plot has similarities to Jane Mander's 1920 novel, The Story of a New Zealand River, but also substantial differences. Campion has cited the novels Wuthering Heights and The African Queen as inspirations.[7]

Plot edit

In the mid-1800s,[8] a Scotswoman named Ada McGrath who chooses not to speak is sold by her father into marriage with New Zealand frontiersman Alisdair Stewart, along with her daughter Flora. Ada has not spoken since the age of six, and the reason for this as well as the identity of Flora's father remain unknown. She communicates through playing the piano and sign language, with Flora acting as her interpreter.

Ada and Flora, along with their handcrafted piano, are stranded on a New Zealand beach by a ship's crew. The next day, Alisdair arrives with his Māori crew and neighbour George Baines, a retired sailor who's adapted to Maori customs, including facial tattoos. Alisdair tells Ada that they don't have enough bearers for the piano and then refuses to go back for it, claiming that they all need to make sacrifices. Desperate to retrieve her piano, Ada seeks George's help. Although he can't read her note, he is entranced by her music and agrees to help her. George offers Alisdair the land he's been coveting in exchange for the piano and Ada's lessons. Alisdair agrees, oblivious to George's attraction to Ada. Ada is enraged by George's proposition but agrees to trade lessons for piano keys. She restricts the lessons to the black keys only and resists George's demands for more intimacy. Ada continues to rebuff Alisdair's advances while exploring her sensuality with George. George eventually realizes that Ada will never commit to him emotionally and returns the piano to her, confessing that he wants Ada to care for him genuinely.

Although Ada has her piano back, she longs for George and returns to him. Alisdair overhears them having sex and watches them through a crack in the wall. Furious, he confronts Ada and tries to force himself on her despite her strong resistance. He then coerces Ada into promising she will no longer see George.

Shortly after, Ada instructs Flora to deliver a package to George, which contains a piano key with a love declaration engraved on it. Flora delivers it to Alisdair instead. Enraged after reading the message, Alisdair cuts off Ada's index finger, depriving her of the ability to play the piano. He sends Flora to George with the severed finger, warning him to stay away from Ada or he will chop off more fingers. Later, while touching Ada as she sleeps, Alisdair hears what he thinks is her voice in his head, asking him to let George take her away. He goes to George's house and asks if Ada has ever spoken to him, but George says no. George and Ada leave together with her belongings and piano tied onto a Māori longboat. As they row to the ship, Ada asks George to throw the piano overboard. She allows her leg to be caught by the rope attached to the piano and is dragged underwater with it in an attempt to drown herself. As she sinks, she appears to change her mind and struggles free before being pulled to safety.

In the epilogue, Ada describes her new life with George and Flora in Nelson, New Zealand, where she gives piano lessons in their new home. George has made her a metal finger to replace the one she lost, and Ada has been practicing and taking speech lessons. She sometimes dreams of the piano resting at the bottom of the ocean with her still tethered to it.

Cast edit

Production edit

The film was originally titled The Piano Lesson, but the filmmakers could not obtain the rights to use the title because of the American play of the same name, and it was changed to The Piano.[9]

Casting the role of Ada was a difficult process. Sigourney Weaver was Campion's first choice, but ultimately turned down the role. Jennifer Jason Leigh was also considered, but had a conflict with her commitment to Rush (1991).[10] Isabelle Huppert met with Jane Campion and had vintage period-style photographs taken of her as Ada, and later said she regretted not fighting for the role as Hunter did.[11]

The casting for Flora occurred after Hunter had been selected for the part. They did a series of open auditions for girls age 9 to 13, focusing on girls who were small enough to be believable as Ada's daughter (as Holly Hunter is relatively short at 157 cm / 5' 2" tall[12]). Anna Paquin ended up winning the role of Flora over 5,000 other girls.[13]

Alistair Fox has argued that The Piano was significantly influenced by Jane Mander's The Story of a New Zealand River.[14] Robert Macklin, an associate editor with The Canberra Times newspaper, has also written about the similarities.[15] The film also serves as a retelling of the fairytale "Bluebeard",[16][17] itself depicted as a scene in the Christmas pageant.

In July 2013, Campion revealed that she originally intended for the main character to drown in the sea after going overboard after her piano.[18]

Principal photography took place over 12 weeks from February to mid-May 1992.[19]

Campion was determined to market the film to appeal to a larger audience than the limited audiences many art films attracted at the time. Simona Benzakein, the publicist for The Piano at Cannes noted: "Jane and I discussed the marketing. She wanted this to be not just an elite film, but a popular film."[20]

Reception edit

Critical reception edit

Reviews for the film were overwhelmingly positive. Roger Ebert wrote: "The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I've seen" and "it is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story, or some characters, but about a whole universe of feeling".[21] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called it an "evocative, powerful, extraordinarily beautiful film".[22]

The Piano was named one of the best films of 1993 by 86 film critics, making it the most acclaimed film of 1993.[23]

In his 2013 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gave the film three and half out of four stars, calling the film a "haunting, unpredictable tale of love and sex told from a woman's point of view" and went on to say "writer-director Campion has fashioned a highly original fable, showing the tragedy and triumph erotic passion can bring to one's daily life".[24]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 90% based on 71 reviews, and an average rating of 8.50/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Powered by Holly Hunter's main performance, The Piano is a truth-seeking romance played in the key of erotic passion."[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[26]

Box office edit

The film was the highest-grossing New Zealand film of all-time surpassing Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986) with a gross of $NZ3.8 million.[27]

It grossed over US$140 million worldwide, including $7 million in Australia, $16 million in France, and $39 million in the United States and Canada.[28]

Accolades edit

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning three for Best Actress (Holly Hunter), Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin) and Best Original Screenplay (Jane Campion). At age 11, Anna Paquin became the second youngest competitive Academy Award winner (after Tatum O'Neal in 1973).[29]

At the Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or (sharing with Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine), with Campion becoming the first woman to win the honour, as well as the first filmmaker from New Zealand to achieve this.[30][31] Holly Hunter also won Best Actress.[32]

In 2019, the BBC polled 368 film experts from 84 countries to name the 100 best films by women directors, and The Piano was named the top film, with nearly 10% of the critics polled giving it first place on their ballots.[33]

Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
20/20 Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated
Best Art Direction Andrew McAlpine Nominated
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated
Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated
Best Film Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated
Best Original Score Michael Nyman Nominated
Academy Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Nominated [34]
Best Director Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Jane Campion Won
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated
Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated
Best Film Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated
American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film Nominated
American Society of Cinematographers Awards Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Stuart Dryburgh Nominated [35]
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won
Australian Film Institute Awards Best Film Jan Chapman Won [36]
Best Direction Jane Campion Won
Best Actor in a Leading Role Harvey Keitel Won
Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sam Neill Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kerry Walker Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Won
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won
Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won
Best Editing Veronika Jenet Won
Best Original Music Score Michael Nyman Won
Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won
Best Sound Lee Smith, Tony Johnson, Gethin Creagh, Peter Townsend and Annabelle Sheehan Won
Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Director Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anna Paquin Won
Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated
Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated
Best Original Score Michael Nyman Nominated
Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Nominated
Bodil Awards Best Non-American Film Jane Campion Won [37]
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Actress Holly Hunter Won [38]
British Academy Film Awards Best Film Jan Chapman and Jane Campion Nominated [39]
Best Direction Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won
Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated
Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won
Best Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated
Best Original Music Michael Nyman Nominated
Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won
Best Sound Lee Smith, Tony Johnson and Gethin Creagh Nominated
British Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film Stuart Dryburgh Nominated [40]
Camerimage Golden Frog (Main Competition) Won
Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Jane Campion Won[a] [32]
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
César Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won [41]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Nominated [42]
Best Foreign Language Film Won
Best Director Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Nominated
Best Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated
Best Original Score Michael Nyman Won
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Nominated
Best Director Jane Campion Nominated
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Actress Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Jane Campion Nominated [43]
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Director Won [44]
Best Supporting Actor – Female Anna Paquin Won
Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won
Best Musical Score Michael Nyman Won
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated [45]
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Anna Paquin Nominated
Best Director – Motion Picture Jane Campion Nominated
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Nominated
Best Original Score – Motion Picture Michael Nyman Nominated
Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing – Foreign Feature Martin Oswin Won
Guldbagge Awards Best Foreign Film Won [46]
Independent Spirit Awards Best International Film Won [47]
Japan Academy Film Prize Outstanding Foreign Language Film Nominated
Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Jane Campion Won
London Film Critics Circle Awards Film of the Year Won [48]
[49]
Actress of the Year Holly Hunter Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Runner-up [50]
Best Director Jane Campion Won
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won[b]
Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won[c]
Best Music Score Michael Nyman Runner-up
Medias Central European Film Festival Best Picture (Audience Award) Jane Campion Won
Nastro d'Argento Best Foreign Director Nominated
National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films 4th Place [51]
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Film 2nd Place [52]
Best Director Jane Campion 2nd Place
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin 3rd Place
Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won
Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh 2nd Place
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Runner-up [53]
Best Director Jane Campion Won
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won
Best Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh Runner-up
Political Film Society Awards Democracy Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Jan Chapman Nominated [54]
Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures Won
Robert Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won
SESC Film Festival Best Foreign Film Won
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Won [55]
Top Ten Films Won
Best Director Jane Campion Won
Best Actress Holly Hunter Won
Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film Won
Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular International Film Jane Campion Won
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Won [56]

Soundtrack edit

 
"The Piano"
Extract from the score of the 1993 film "The Piano"
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The score for the film was written by Michael Nyman, and included the acclaimed piece "The Heart Asks Pleasure First"; additional pieces were "Big My Secret", "The Mood That Passes Through You", "Silver Fingered Fling", "Deep Sleep Playing" and "The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle". This album is rated in the top 100 soundtrack albums of all time and Nyman's work is regarded as a key voice in the film, which has a mute lead character.[57]

Home media edit

The film was released on VHS on May 25, 1994. Initial fears in leadup to its release were in relation to the films status as "arty" and "non-mainstream," however its nominations and success at the Academy Awards guaranteed it profitability in the home video market.[58] It finished in the top 30 video rentals of 1994 in the United States.[59] It was released on DVD in 1997 by LIVE Entertainment and on Blu-ray on 31 January 2012 by Lionsgate, but already released in 2010 in Australia.[60]

On 11 August 2021, the Criterion Collection announced their first 4K Ultra HD releases, a six-film slate, will include The Piano. Criterion indicated each title will be available in a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo pack, including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film as well as the film and special features on the companion Blu-ray. The Piano was released on January 25, 2022.[61]

See also edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Tied with Farewell My Concubine.
  2. ^ Tied with Rosie Perez for Fearless.
  3. ^ Tied with Janusz Kamiński for Schindler's List.

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Bibliography edit

  • Margolis, Harriet (2000). Jane Campion's The Piano. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521597210. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

Further reading edit

  • Althofer, Beth (1994). "The Piano, or Wuthering Heights revisited, or separation and civilization through the eyes of the (girl) child". Psychoanalytic Review. 81 (2): 339–342.
  • Attwood, Feona (1998). "Weird Lullaby Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Feminist Review. 58 (1): 85–101. doi:10.1080/014177898339604. JSTOR 1395681. S2CID 144226880.
  • Bentley, Greg (2002). "Mothers, daughters, and (absent) fathers in Jane Campion's The Piano". Literature/Film Quarterly. 30 (1): 46. ProQuest 226994856.
  • Bihlmeyer, Jaime (2005). "The (Un) Speakable FEMININITY in Mainstream Movies: Jane Campion's" The Piano"". Cinema Journal. 44 (2): 68–88. doi:10.1353/cj.2005.0004. S2CID 191463102.
  • Bihlmeyer, Jaime (2003). "Jane Campion's The Piano: The Female Gaze, the Speculum and the Chora within the H (y) st (e) rical Film" (PDF). Essays in Philosophy. 4 (1): 3–27. doi:10.5840/eip20034120.
  • Bogdan, Deanne; Davis, Hilary; Robertson, Judith (1997). "Sweet Surrender and Trespassing Desires in Reading: Jane Campion's The Piano and the struggle for responsible pedagogy". Changing English. 4 (1): 81–103. doi:10.1080/1358684970040106.
  • Bussi, Elisa (2000). "13 Voyages and Border Crossings: Jane Campion's "The Piano" (1993)". The Seeing Century. Brill: 161–173. doi:10.1163/9789004455030_014. ISBN 9789004455030. S2CID 239977351.
  • Campion, Jane (2000). Jane Campion's The Piano. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521597210.
  • Chumo II, Peter N. (1997). "Keys to the Imagination: Jane Campion's The Piano". Literature/Film Quarterly. 25 (3): 173.
  • Dalton, Mary M.; Fatzinger, Kirsten James (2003). "Choosing silence: defiance and resistance without voice in Jane Campion's The Piano". Women and Language. 26 (2): 34.
  • Davis, Michael (2002). "Tied to that Maternal 'Thing': Death and Desire in Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Gothic Studies. 4 (1): 63–78. doi:10.7227/GS.4.1.5.
  • Dayal, Samir (2002). "Inhuman love: Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Postmodern Culture. 12 (2). doi:10.1353/pmc.2002.0005. S2CID 144838814.
  • DuPuis, Reshela (1996). "Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's "The Piano"". The Contemporary Pacific. 8 (1): 51–79. JSTOR 23706813.
  • Frankenberg, Ronnie (2016). "Re-presenting the Embodied Child: the Muted Child, the Tamed Wife and the Silenced Instrument in Jane Campion's "The Piano"". The Body, Childhood and Society. Springer. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-333-98363-8.
  • Frus, Phyllis (2010). "Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion's "The Piano" and Intertextuality". In Frus, Phyllis; Williams, Christy (eds.). Beyond Adaptation: Essays on Radical Transformations of Original Works. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786442232.
  • Gillett, Sue (1995). "Lips and fingers: Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Screen. 36 (3): 277–287. doi:10.1093/screen/36.3.277.
  • Hazel, Valerie (1994). "Disjointed Articulations: The Politics of Voice and Jane Campion's "The Piano"" (PDF). Women's Studies Journal. 10 (2): 27.
  • Hendershot, Cyndy (1998). "(Re) Visioning the Gothic: Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Literature/Film Quarterly. 26 (2): 97–108. JSTOR 43796833.
  • Izod, John (1996). "The Piano, the Animus, and the Colonial Experience". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 41 (1): 117–136. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1996.00117.x. PMID 8851259.
  • Jacobs, Carol (December 1994). "Playing Jane Campion's Piano: Politically". Modern Language Notes. 109: 757–785.
  • James, Caryn (28 November 1993). "A Distinctive Shade of Darkness". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  • Jayamanne, Laleen (2001). "Post-colonial gothic: the narcissistic wound of Jane Campion's "The Piano"". Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-cultural Mimesis. Indiana University Press: 24–48. ISBN 978-0253214751.
  • Jolly, Margaret (2009). "Looking Back? Gender, Sexuality and Race in "The Piano"". Australian Feminist Studies. 24 (59): 99–121. doi:10.1080/08164640802680627. hdl:1885/31897. S2CID 143160100.
  • Klinger, Barbara (2003). "Contested Endings: Interpreting The Piano's (1993) Final Scenes". Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory: 135–39.
  • Klinger, Barbara (2006). "The art film, affect and the female viewer: "The Piano" revisited". Screen. 47 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1093/screen/hjl002.
  • Molina, Caroline (1997). "Muteness and mutilation: the aesthetics of disability in Jane Campion's "The Piano"". The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability. University of Michigan Press. pp. 267–282. ISBN 978-0472066599.
  • Najita, Susan Yukie (2001). "Family Resemblances: The Construction of Pakeha History in Jane Campion's "The Piano"". ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 32 (1).
  • Norgrove, Aaron (1998). "But is it music? The crisis of identity in "The Piano"". Race & Class. 40 (1): 47–56. doi:10.1177/030639689804000104. S2CID 143485321.
  • Pflueger, Pennie (2015). "The Piano and Female Subjectivity: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" (1899) and Jane Campion's "The Piano" (1993)". Women's Studies. 44 (4): 468–498. doi:10.1080/00497878.2015.1013213. S2CID 142988458.
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This article is about the film For the instrument see Piano For other uses see Piano disambiguation Not to be confused with the film The Pianist 2002 film The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion It stars Holly Hunter Harvey Keitel Sam Neill and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman The PianoTheatrical release posterDirected byJane CampionWritten byJane CampionProduced byJan ChapmanStarringHolly Hunter Harvey Keitel Sam Neill Anna Paquin Kerry Walker Genevieve LemonCinematographyStuart DryburghEdited byVeronika JenetMusic byMichael NymanProductioncompaniesJan Chapman ProductionsCiBy 2000Distributed byBAC Films France Miramax 1 Australia and New Zealand through Buena Vista International 2 and Roadshow Film Distributors 3 Release dates15 May 1993 1993 05 15 Cannes 19 May 1993 1993 05 19 France 5 August 1993 1993 08 05 Australia Running time117 minutesCountriesNew ZealandAustraliaFranceLanguagesEnglishMaoriBritish Sign LanguageBudgetUS 7 million 4 Box officeUS 140 million 5 A co production between New Zealand Australia and France The Piano was a critical and commercial success grossing US 140 2 million worldwide equivalent to 295 7 million in 2023 against its US 7 million budget equivalent to 14 8 million in 2023 It was noted for its crossover appeal beyond the arthouse circuit to attracting mainstream popularity largely due to rave reviews and word of mouth 6 Hunter and Paquin both received high praise for their performances In 1993 the film won the Palme d Or at the Cannes Film Festival making Campion the first female director to receive the award It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994 Best Actress for Hunter Best Supporting Actress for Paquin and Best Original Screenplay for Campion Paquin was 11 years old at the time and remains the second youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category The plot has similarities to Jane Mander s 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River but also substantial differences Campion has cited the novels Wuthering Heights and The African Queen as inspirations 7 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4 1 Critical reception 4 2 Box office 4 3 Accolades 5 Soundtrack 6 Home media 7 See also 8 Footnotes 9 References 9 1 Bibliography 10 Further reading 11 External linksPlot editIn the mid 1800s 8 a Scotswoman named Ada McGrath who chooses not to speak is sold by her father into marriage with New Zealand frontiersman Alisdair Stewart along with her daughter Flora Ada has not spoken since the age of six and the reason for this as well as the identity of Flora s father remain unknown She communicates through playing the piano and sign language with Flora acting as her interpreter Ada and Flora along with their handcrafted piano are stranded on a New Zealand beach by a ship s crew The next day Alisdair arrives with his Maori crew and neighbour George Baines a retired sailor who s adapted to Maori customs including facial tattoos Alisdair tells Ada that they don t have enough bearers for the piano and then refuses to go back for it claiming that they all need to make sacrifices Desperate to retrieve her piano Ada seeks George s help Although he can t read her note he is entranced by her music and agrees to help her George offers Alisdair the land he s been coveting in exchange for the piano and Ada s lessons Alisdair agrees oblivious to George s attraction to Ada Ada is enraged by George s proposition but agrees to trade lessons for piano keys She restricts the lessons to the black keys only and resists George s demands for more intimacy Ada continues to rebuff Alisdair s advances while exploring her sensuality with George George eventually realizes that Ada will never commit to him emotionally and returns the piano to her confessing that he wants Ada to care for him genuinely Although Ada has her piano back she longs for George and returns to him Alisdair overhears them having sex and watches them through a crack in the wall Furious he confronts Ada and tries to force himself on her despite her strong resistance He then coerces Ada into promising she will no longer see George Shortly after Ada instructs Flora to deliver a package to George which contains a piano key with a love declaration engraved on it Flora delivers it to Alisdair instead Enraged after reading the message Alisdair cuts off Ada s index finger depriving her of the ability to play the piano He sends Flora to George with the severed finger warning him to stay away from Ada or he will chop off more fingers Later while touching Ada as she sleeps Alisdair hears what he thinks is her voice in his head asking him to let George take her away He goes to George s house and asks if Ada has ever spoken to him but George says no George and Ada leave together with her belongings and piano tied onto a Maori longboat As they row to the ship Ada asks George to throw the piano overboard She allows her leg to be caught by the rope attached to the piano and is dragged underwater with it in an attempt to drown herself As she sinks she appears to change her mind and struggles free before being pulled to safety In the epilogue Ada describes her new life with George and Flora in Nelson New Zealand where she gives piano lessons in their new home George has made her a metal finger to replace the one she lost and Ada has been practicing and taking speech lessons She sometimes dreams of the piano resting at the bottom of the ocean with her still tethered to it Cast editHolly Hunter as Ada McGrath Harvey Keitel as George Baines Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag Genevieve Lemon as Nessie Tungia Baker as Hira Ian Mune as Reverend Peter Dennett as Head seaman Cliff Curtis as Mana George Boyle as Ada s father Rose McIver as Angel Mika Haka as Tahu Bruce Allpress as Blind piano tunerProduction editThe film was originally titled The Piano Lesson but the filmmakers could not obtain the rights to use the title because of the American play of the same name and it was changed to The Piano 9 Casting the role of Ada was a difficult process Sigourney Weaver was Campion s first choice but ultimately turned down the role Jennifer Jason Leigh was also considered but had a conflict with her commitment to Rush 1991 10 Isabelle Huppert met with Jane Campion and had vintage period style photographs taken of her as Ada and later said she regretted not fighting for the role as Hunter did 11 The casting for Flora occurred after Hunter had been selected for the part They did a series of open auditions for girls age 9 to 13 focusing on girls who were small enough to be believable as Ada s daughter as Holly Hunter is relatively short at 157 cm 5 2 tall 12 Anna Paquin ended up winning the role of Flora over 5 000 other girls 13 Alistair Fox has argued that The Piano was significantly influenced by Jane Mander s The Story of a New Zealand River 14 Robert Macklin an associate editor with The Canberra Times newspaper has also written about the similarities 15 The film also serves as a retelling of the fairytale Bluebeard 16 17 itself depicted as a scene in the Christmas pageant In July 2013 Campion revealed that she originally intended for the main character to drown in the sea after going overboard after her piano 18 Principal photography took place over 12 weeks from February to mid May 1992 19 Campion was determined to market the film to appeal to a larger audience than the limited audiences many art films attracted at the time Simona Benzakein the publicist for The Piano at Cannes noted Jane and I discussed the marketing She wanted this to be not just an elite film but a popular film 20 Reception editCritical reception edit Reviews for the film were overwhelmingly positive Roger Ebert wrote The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I ve seen and it is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story or some characters but about a whole universe of feeling 21 Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called it an evocative powerful extraordinarily beautiful film 22 The Piano was named one of the best films of 1993 by 86 film critics making it the most acclaimed film of 1993 23 In his 2013 Movie Guide Leonard Maltin gave the film three and half out of four stars calling the film a haunting unpredictable tale of love and sex told from a woman s point of view and went on to say writer director Campion has fashioned a highly original fable showing the tragedy and triumph erotic passion can bring to one s daily life 24 On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 90 based on 71 reviews and an average rating of 8 50 10 The website s critical consensus reads Powered by Holly Hunter s main performance The Piano is a truth seeking romance played in the key of erotic passion 25 On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100 based on 20 critics indicating universal acclaim 26 Box office edit The film was the highest grossing New Zealand film of all time surpassing Footrot Flats The Dog s Tale 1986 with a gross of NZ3 8 million 27 It grossed over US 140 million worldwide including 7 million in Australia 16 million in France and 39 million in the United States and Canada 28 Accolades edit The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture winning three for Best Actress Holly Hunter Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin and Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion At age 11 Anna Paquin became the second youngest competitive Academy Award winner after Tatum O Neal in 1973 29 At the Cannes Film Festival the film won the Palme d Or sharing with Chen Kaige s Farewell My Concubine with Campion becoming the first woman to win the honour as well as the first filmmaker from New Zealand to achieve this 30 31 Holly Hunter also won Best Actress 32 In 2019 the BBC polled 368 film experts from 84 countries to name the 100 best films by women directors and The Piano was named the top film with nearly 10 of the critics polled giving it first place on their ballots 33 Award Category Recipient s Result Ref 20 20 Awards Best Picture Nominated Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Nominated Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated Best Art Direction Andrew McAlpine Nominated Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated Best Film Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated Best Original Score Michael Nyman Nominated Academy Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Nominated 34 Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Jane Campion Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated Best Film Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film Nominated American Society of Cinematographers Awards Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Stuart Dryburgh Nominated 35 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won Australian Film Institute Awards Best Film Jan Chapman Won 36 Best Direction Jane Campion Won Best Actor in a Leading Role Harvey Keitel Won Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sam Neill Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kerry Walker Nominated Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won Best Editing Veronika Jenet Won Best Original Music Score Michael Nyman Won Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won Best Sound Lee Smith Tony Johnson Gethin Creagh Peter Townsend and Annabelle Sheehan Won Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anna Paquin Won Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated Best Original Score Michael Nyman Nominated Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Nominated Bodil Awards Best Non American Film Jane Campion Won 37 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Actress Holly Hunter Won 38 British Academy Film Awards Best Film Jan Chapman and Jane Campion Nominated 39 Best Direction Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role Holly Hunter Won Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won Best Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated Best Original Music Michael Nyman Nominated Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won Best Sound Lee Smith Tony Johnson and Gethin Creagh Nominated British Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film Stuart Dryburgh Nominated 40 Camerimage Golden Frog Main Competition Won Cannes Film Festival Palme d Or Jane Campion Won a 32 Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Cesar Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won 41 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Nominated 42 Best Foreign Language Film Won Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Nominated Best Screenplay Jane Campion Nominated Best Original Score Michael Nyman Won Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Nominated Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Actress Holly Hunter Won David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Actress Nominated Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Jane Campion Nominated 43 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Director Won 44 Best Supporting Actor Female Anna Paquin Won Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won Best Musical Score Michael Nyman Won Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture Drama Nominated 45 Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture Anna Paquin Nominated Best Director Motion Picture Jane Campion Nominated Best Screenplay Motion Picture Nominated Best Original Score Motion Picture Michael Nyman Nominated Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing Foreign Feature Martin Oswin Won Guldbagge Awards Best Foreign Film Won 46 Independent Spirit Awards Best International Film Won 47 Japan Academy Film Prize Outstanding Foreign Language Film Nominated Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Jane Campion Won London Film Critics Circle Awards Film of the Year Won 48 49 Actress of the Year Holly Hunter Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Runner up 50 Best Director Jane Campion Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won b Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won c Best Music Score Michael Nyman Runner up Medias Central European Film Festival Best Picture Audience Award Jane Campion Won Nastro d Argento Best Foreign Director Nominated National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films 4th Place 51 Best Actress Holly Hunter Won National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Film 2nd Place 52 Best Director Jane Campion 2nd Place Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin 3rd Place Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh 2nd Place New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Runner up 53 Best Director Jane Campion Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won Best Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh Runner up Political Film Society Awards Democracy Nominated Producers Guild of America Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Jan Chapman Nominated 54 Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures Won Robert Awards Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won SESC Film Festival Best Foreign Film Won Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Won 55 Top Ten Films Won Best Director Jane Campion Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film Won Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular International Film Jane Campion Won Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Won 56 Soundtrack edit nbsp The Piano source source Extract from the score of the 1993 film The Piano Problems playing this file See media help For more details see The Piano soundtrack The score for the film was written by Michael Nyman and included the acclaimed piece The Heart Asks Pleasure First additional pieces were Big My Secret The Mood That Passes Through You Silver Fingered Fling Deep Sleep Playing and The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle This album is rated in the top 100 soundtrack albums of all time and Nyman s work is regarded as a key voice in the film which has a mute lead character 57 Home media editThe film was released on VHS on May 25 1994 Initial fears in leadup to its release were in relation to the films status as arty and non mainstream however its nominations and success at the Academy Awards guaranteed it profitability in the home video market 58 It finished in the top 30 video rentals of 1994 in the United States 59 It was released on DVD in 1997 by LIVE Entertainment and on Blu ray on 31 January 2012 by Lionsgate but already released in 2010 in Australia 60 On 11 August 2021 the Criterion Collection announced their first 4K Ultra HD releases a six film slate will include The Piano Criterion indicated each title will be available in a 4K UHD Blu ray combo pack including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film as well as the film and special features on the companion Blu ray The Piano was released on January 25 2022 61 See also editList of films considered the bestFootnotes edit Tied with Farewell My Concubine Tied with Rosie Perez for 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Moving Image 23 November 1994 Archived from the original PDF on 3 July 2007 Isabelle Huppert La Vie Pour Jouer Career Trivia Archived from the original on 16 February 2012 Worrell Denise 21 December 1987 Show Business Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood time com Archived from the original on 23 December 2007 Retrieved 22 July 2010 Fish Andrew Summer 2010 It s in Her Blood From Child Prodigy to Supernatural Heroine Anna Paquin Has Us Under Her Spell Venice Magazine Archived from the original on 25 July 2010 Retrieved 22 July 2010 Fox Alistair Puritanism and the Erotics of Transgression the New Zealand Influence on Jane Campion s Thematic Imaginary Archived from the original on 24 October 2007 Retrieved 7 October 2007 Macklin Robert September 2000 FIELD NOTES The Purloined Piano lingua franca Vol 10 no 6 Heiner Heidi Ann Modern Interpretations of Bluebeard Retrieved 12 April 2010 Smith Scott C Look at The Piano Archived from the original on 12 October 2010 Retrieved 12 April 2010 Child Ben 8 July 2013 Jane Campion wanted a bleaker ending for The Piano The Guardian The Piano Ain t Got No Wrong Notes CineMontage 12 June 2018 Retrieved 19 July 2023 Elaine Margolis Harriett 2000 Jane Campion s The Piano Cambridge University Press p 136 ISBN 978 0521592581 Ebert Roger 19 November 1993 The Piano Rogerebert com Retrieved 3 July 2017 Hinson Hal 19 November 1993 The Piano R The Washington Post Retrieved 3 July 2017 McGilligan Pat Rowl Mark 9 January 1994 86 Thumbs Up For Once The Nation s Critics Agree on The Year s Best Movies The Washington Post Retrieved 13 December 2021 Maltin Leonard 2012 2013 Movie Guide Penguin Books p 1084 ISBN 978 0 451 23774 3 The Piano 1993 Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Media Retrieved 2 April 2022 The Piano Reviews Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved 20 March 2018 Groves Don 29 August 1994 Summer B O goes out like a Lion Variety p 14 Margolis 2000 Young John 24 December 2008 Anna Paquin Did she really deserve an Oscar Entertainment Weekly Dowd AA 13 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Awards National Society of Film Critics 19 December 2009 Retrieved 2 July 2017 1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards New York Film Critics Circle Retrieved 5 July 2021 Cox Dan 19 January 1994 Laurel noms announced Variety 1993 SEFA Awards sefca net Retrieved 15 May 2021 Fox David J 14 March 1994 Schindler s Adds a Pair to the List Awards Spielberg epic takes more honors for screenwriting and editing Jane Campion s The Piano also wins Los Angeles Times Retrieved 3 July 2017 Top 100 Soundtrack Albums Entertainment Weekly 12 October 2001 p 44 Hunt Dennis 11 February 1994 Oscars Give Rentals New Lease on Life Los Angeles Times Top Video Rentals PDF Billboard 7 January 1995 p 65 Piano Blu ray 1993 Machkovech Sam 11 August 2021 Criterion announces support for 4K UHD Blu ray beginning with Citizen Kane Ars Technica Retrieved 12 August 2021 Bibliography edit Margolis Harriet 2000 Jane Campion sThe Piano Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0521597210 Retrieved 13 July 2016 Further reading editAlthofer Beth 1994 The Piano or Wuthering Heights revisited or separation and civilization through the eyes of the girl child Psychoanalytic Review 81 2 339 342 Attwood Feona 1998 Weird Lullaby Jane Campion s The Piano Feminist Review 58 1 85 101 doi 10 1080 014177898339604 JSTOR 1395681 S2CID 144226880 Bentley Greg 2002 Mothers daughters and absent fathers in Jane Campion s The Piano Literature Film Quarterly 30 1 46 ProQuest 226994856 Bihlmeyer Jaime 2005 The Un Speakable FEMININITY in Mainstream Movies Jane Campion s The Piano Cinema Journal 44 2 68 88 doi 10 1353 cj 2005 0004 S2CID 191463102 Bihlmeyer Jaime 2003 Jane Campion s The Piano The Female Gaze the Speculum and the Chora within the H y st e rical Film PDF Essays in Philosophy 4 1 3 27 doi 10 5840 eip20034120 Bogdan Deanne Davis Hilary Robertson Judith 1997 Sweet Surrender and Trespassing Desires in Reading Jane Campion s The Piano and the struggle for responsible pedagogy Changing English 4 1 81 103 doi 10 1080 1358684970040106 Bussi Elisa 2000 13 Voyages and Border Crossings Jane Campion s The Piano 1993 The Seeing Century Brill 161 173 doi 10 1163 9789004455030 014 ISBN 9789004455030 S2CID 239977351 Campion Jane 2000 Jane Campion s The Piano United Kingdom Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0521597210 Chumo II Peter N 1997 Keys to the Imagination Jane Campion s The Piano Literature Film Quarterly 25 3 173 Dalton Mary M Fatzinger Kirsten James 2003 Choosing silence defiance and resistance without voice in Jane Campion s The Piano Women and Language 26 2 34 Davis Michael 2002 Tied to that Maternal Thing Death and Desire in Jane Campion s The Piano Gothic Studies 4 1 63 78 doi 10 7227 GS 4 1 5 Dayal Samir 2002 Inhuman love Jane Campion s The Piano Postmodern Culture 12 2 doi 10 1353 pmc 2002 0005 S2CID 144838814 DuPuis Reshela 1996 Romanticizing Colonialism Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion s The Piano The Contemporary Pacific 8 1 51 79 JSTOR 23706813 Frankenberg Ronnie 2016 Re presenting the Embodied Child the Muted Child the Tamed Wife and the Silenced Instrument in Jane Campion s The Piano The Body Childhood and Society Springer p 125 ISBN 978 0 333 98363 8 Frus Phyllis 2010 Borrowing a Melody Jane Campion s The Piano and Intertextuality In Frus Phyllis Williams Christy eds Beyond Adaptation Essays on Radical Transformations of Original Works McFarland ISBN 978 0786442232 Gillett Sue 1995 Lips and fingers Jane Campion s The Piano Screen 36 3 277 287 doi 10 1093 screen 36 3 277 Hazel Valerie 1994 Disjointed Articulations The Politics of Voice and Jane Campion s The Piano PDF Women s Studies Journal 10 2 27 Hendershot Cyndy 1998 Re Visioning the Gothic Jane Campion s The Piano Literature Film Quarterly 26 2 97 108 JSTOR 43796833 Izod John 1996 The Piano the Animus and the Colonial Experience Journal of Analytical Psychology 41 1 117 136 doi 10 1111 j 1465 5922 1996 00117 x PMID 8851259 Jacobs Carol December 1994 Playing Jane Campion s Piano Politically Modern Language Notes 109 757 785 James Caryn 28 November 1993 A Distinctive Shade of Darkness The New York Times Retrieved 19 July 2023 Jayamanne Laleen 2001 Post colonial gothic the narcissistic wound of Jane Campion s The Piano Toward Cinema and Its Double Cross cultural Mimesis Indiana University Press 24 48 ISBN 978 0253214751 Jolly Margaret 2009 Looking Back Gender Sexuality and Race in The Piano Australian Feminist Studies 24 59 99 121 doi 10 1080 08164640802680627 hdl 1885 31897 S2CID 143160100 Klinger Barbara 2003 Contested Endings Interpreting The Piano s 1993 Final Scenes Film Moments Criticism History Theory 135 39 Klinger Barbara 2006 The art film affect and the female viewer The Piano revisited Screen 47 1 19 41 doi 10 1093 screen hjl002 Molina Caroline 1997 Muteness and mutilation the aesthetics of disability in Jane Campion s The Piano The Body and Physical Difference Discourses of Disability University of Michigan Press pp 267 282 ISBN 978 0472066599 Najita Susan Yukie 2001 Family Resemblances The Construction of Pakeha History in Jane Campion s The Piano ARIEL A Review of International English Literature 32 1 Norgrove Aaron 1998 But is it music The crisis of identity in The Piano Race amp Class 40 1 47 56 doi 10 1177 030639689804000104 S2CID 143485321 Pflueger Pennie 2015 The Piano and Female Subjectivity Kate Chopin s The Awakening 1899 and Jane Campion s The Piano 1993 Women s Studies 44 4 468 498 doi 10 1080 00497878 2015 1013213 S2CID 142988458 Preis Smith Agata 2009 Was Ada McGrath a Cyborg or the Post human Concept of the Female Artist in Jane Campion s The Piano PDF Acta Philologica 21 Reid Mark A 2000 A few black keys and Maori tattoos Re reading Jane Campion s the piano in PostNegritude time Quarterly Review of Film amp Video 17 2 107 116 doi 10 1080 10509200009361484 S2CID 191617268 Riu Carmen Perez 2000 Two Gothic Feminist Texts Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights and the Film The Piano by Jane Campion Atlantis 163 173 Sklarew Bruce H 2018 I Have Not Spoken Silence in The Piano In Gabbard Glen O ed Psychoanalysis and Film Routledge pp 115 120 ISBN 978 0429478703 Taylor Lib 2014 Inscription in The Piano In Bignell Jonathan ed Writing and Cinema Routledge pp 88 101 doi 10 4324 9781315839325 ISBN 978 1315839325 Thornley Davinia 2000 Duel or Duet Gendered Nationalism in The Piano Film Criticism 24 3 61 76 JSTOR 44019061 Williams Donald 2013 The Piano The Isolated Constricted Self Film Commentaries Wrye Harriet Kimble 1998 Tuning a clinical ear to the ambiguous chords of Jane Campion s The Piano Psychoanalytic Inquiry 18 2 168 182 doi 10 1080 07351699809534182 Zarzosa Agustin 2010 Jane Campion s The Piano melodrama as mode of exchange New Review of Film and Television Studies 8 4 396 411 doi 10 1080 17400309 2010 514664 S2CID 191596093 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to The Piano The Piano at IMDb nbsp The Piano at the TCM Movie Database The Piano at Box Office Mojo The Piano at Rotten Tomatoes The Piano at 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