The Piano Teacher
Dir: Michael Haneke
2001
*****
Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher is as intense as it is disturbing. The Piano Teacher isn't so much enjoyable to watch but is more a case of being impossible to look away from. Isabelle Huppert's performance is one of the all time greatest in modern cinema, and I don't mean for her, I mean ever. This film is awesome, unpleasant and one of the best in the last decade. There are so many great scenes here but the last one has to be one of my all time favourites, deliciously disturbing and relentlessly anti-Hollywood, probably my favourite Michael Haneke film so far.