I went to my local blockbuster to get 'the pianist' but instead got 'the piano teacher'
The Piano Teacher (French: La Pianiste, lit. 'The Pianist') is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek. It tells the story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel). A co-production of Austria and France, Haneke was given the opportunity to direct after previous attempts to adapt the novel by filmmakers Valie Export and Paulus Manker collapsed for financial reasons.
At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prix; the two leads, Huppert and Magimel, won Best Actress and Best Actor. It went on to receive positive reviews and other awards and nominations.
This is all too sick to contemplate. We really need to see how we get all this kicked out of acceptable society.
Balenciaga - Swag for people with too much money. Probably also the type who would go in for sick sh!t.
If they want to abuse children they should just do it the socially acceptable way by mutilating and drugging them in the name of transitioning.
As a rule I refuse to watch French films - they’re either idiotically stupid or depressing from my limited experience of them.
Perhaps I ain’t philosophically deep, but no more “je suis triste....”
I used to love movies. From the 50s through the 80s I went to about half of every decade's Oscar winners, before even knowing they would win, plus many more.
I had the same long-term revulsed reaction that you describe to Last Tango in Paris, American Beauty, and The English Patient, when the tide of morally transgressive movies advertised as if they are for mainstream tastes started turning from a trickle to a flood in the late 80s - early 90s. All of them had seemed attractive because of the big-name stars or directors associated with them.
Traumatizing is the right verb for the experience. I pretty much stopped going to movies after that, unless I researched everything about a film, which takes too much time.
Another update. A who’s who, most I’ve never heard of, trying to rehabilitate the brand...
That the few that I did recognize chose to be there...
Doesn’t surprise me in the least.