Isabelle Huppert took on one of her most challenging roles in Michael Haneke’s controversial adaptation of the novel by Nobel-winner Elfriede Jelinek. Erika Kahut (Huppert), a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, is as renowned for her brilliance as for her rigidly controlling toughness. A talented student (Benoît Magimel) sets out to become both the protégé and the lover of this repressed spinster secretly addicted to pornography and self-mutilation. Screened in 2006 as part of Isabelle Huppert. 35mm screenings generously supported by Mimi and Scott Manzler.