“The Piano” quotes
(1993)
Jane Campion
directed this movie
in 1993
Title The Piano
Year 1993
Director Jane Campion
Genre Drama, Romance
Year 1993
Director Jane Campion
Genre Drama, Romance
Plot – Ada is mute since she was nine. She arrives in New Zealand to meet Stewart, the husband she has married by proxy. Her daughter Flora travels with her, as well as many trunks and a piano that Stewart decides to leave on the beach because it's too heavy. Baines, a white man close to Maori customs, helps Ada to take it back, then he asks Ada to give him lessons in exchange of erotic games. She accepts only to play, but Flora opposes to their newborn relationship, which ends up into tragedy.
All actors – Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Geneviève Lemon, Tungia Baker, Ian Mune, Peter Dennett, Te Whatanui Skipwith, Pete Smith, Bruce Allpress, Cliff Curtis, Carla Rupuha, Mahina Tunui, Hori Ahipene, Gordon Hatfield, Mere Boynton, Kirsten Batley, Tania Burney, Annie Edwards, Harina Haare, Christina Harimate, Steve Kanuta, P.J. Karauria, Sonny Kirikiri, Alain Makiha, Greg Mayor, Neil Mika Gudsell, Guy Moana, Joseph Otimi, Glynis Paraha, Riki Pickering, Eru Potaka Dewes, Liane Rangi Henry, Huihana Rewa, Tamati Rice, Paora Sharples, George Smallman, Kereama Teua, Poamo Tuialii, Susan Tuialii, Kahumanu Waake, Lawrence Wharerau, Eddie Campbell, Roger Goodburn, Stephen Hall, Greg Johnson, Wayne McGoram, Jon Brazier, Stephen Papps, Nicola Baigent, Ruby Codner, Karen Colston, Verity George, Julie Steele, Timothy Raby, Jon Sperry, Isobel Dryburgh, Claire Lourie, Rose McIver, Amber Main, Rachael Main, Sean Abraham, Tomas Dryburgh, Simon Knight-Jones, Julian Lee, Daniel Lunn, Barbara Grover, Arthur Ranford, Rob Ellis, Terrence Garbolino, William Matthew, Nancy Flyger, George Boyle, Jason Aranui, Thomas Crowe, Shane Howell, Sam Ingley, Lance Kahukiwa, Graham Kereama Barrett, Wayne Kingi, Lucas Puhi Thompson, Peter Rangitaawa, Joseph Samuel, Thomas Searancke, Philip Taiaho Heke, George Te Huia, Alfred Tiaki Hotu, Flynn the Dog
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“- Flora: How did you speak to him?
- Ada: I didn't need to speak. I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet.
- Flora: Why didn't you get married?
- Ada: He became frightened and stopped listening.”“One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passionate was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop as the rain began to fall, and when their voices rose for the final bars of the duet a great bolt of lighting came out of the sky and struck my father so that...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. She is a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like. To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant.”
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