The piano

Author

Jane Campion

Call Number

• 4K BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

In English and Maori, with English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Genevieve Lemon.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: R; moments of extremely graphic sexuality.

Summary

"With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. 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 ineffectual husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography, dramatic coastal landscapes, and sweeping score, this uniquely timeless evocation of a woman's inner awakening is an intoxicating sensory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion."--Container.

Notes

This is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and requires a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player; it will not play in standard Blu-ray or DVD players. For full 4K UHD effects, a 4K Ultra HD TV with HDR and a high-speed HDMI (category 2) cable are required.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Jane Campion and director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; one 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features ; audio commentary featuring Campion and producer Jan Chapman ; new conversation between Jane Campion and film critic Amy Taubin ; new interviews with Dryburgh, production designer Andrew McAlpine, and Maori adviser Waihoroi Shortland ; interview with actor Holly Hunter on working with Campion ; "The piano" at 25, a program featuring a conversation between Campion and Chapman ; interview with composer Michael Nyman ; excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson ; Inside "The piano," a featurette including interviews with Hunter and actors Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill ; The water diary, a 2006 short film by Campion ; trailer.

Contents

• [Disc one.] 4K UHD version
• [Disc two.] Blu-ray version.