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The Piano (1993)
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Ada's piano is a voice, a possession and something other people believe they can use to bargain over her future. That makes music part of the struggle over agency rather than simply an attractive accompaniment.
Jane Campion's film is tactile, uneasy and difficult about the relationships it depicts. The landscape can look expansive while the choices available to Ada feel painfully restricted. For anyone approaching period drama through familiar romantic expectations, it offers a more demanding experience of desire, expression, consent and power.
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When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.