La pianiste: Michael Haneke's film with Isabelle Huppert.

«La pianiste» is a feature film shown as a film screening. Austrian director Michael Haneke adapted Elfriede Jelinek's novel about the piano teacher Erika Kohut, who lives under her mother's strict surveillance and channels her frustrations into voyeuristic excursions and self-harm — until a piano student gets too close and her neuroses derail. Isabelle Huppert delivers a minimalist, virtuoso performance as Erika Kohut, alongside Benoît Magimel and Annie Girardot. The tale unfolds like a bourgeois tragedy stripped of its mourning, hovering close to a bitter grotesque.