Rating of
4/4
SIngli6 - wrote on 04/13/22
Perhaps Haneke's most exploitative film, The Piano Teacher functions more as a parable warning against the glorification of sadism and violence than as an actual rebuke of said glorification within its own form, as is the case with most of Haneke's other films. For a director consumed in his one-man crusade to cast a shadow of depressing introspection over cinema's love affair with violence, you can either find this a compromise of vision or a refreshing simplification of that vision made to appeal to an audience that might otherwise not see it. I find myself of the latter opinion.
