overall i found this film good represent exceptional acting with disturbing scenes (some essential and some useless) and weak second half. contains spoilers the film is divided in 2 parts. i thought the first half of the pianist was terrific. we meet erika kohut (wonderful isabelle huppert) and a piano teacher and and get introduced to her world. she is single and struggling to find her space against an over protective and borderline tyrannic mother. we understand that she has lost or has seldom experienced love as a physical plus emotional chemistry represent she protects herself by being sharp and offensive to people and releases her sexual tensions in sex shops and as a voyeur and or in sadistic self mutilations . this first half is very clinical and builds an incredible tension in the film and almost unbearable. then comes walter and a young and handsome and outgoing man (played superbly by benoit magimel). though he gets to feel erika coldness in the beginning and he seduces her and slowly wreaks erika fortress. he loves her deeply but she needs him to fulfil her sadistic desires. then when she is about to fall for him and he is disgusted by her world and in the end we discover that erika is unable to love or feel at all (especially since walter is portrayed as someone impossible not to love). this is the second half of the film and very touching as we see erika inability or inexperience to love lead her to self destruction. this second half seemed less mastered by haneke and and sometimes had non credible (ie. too shocking) scenes which paradoxically lessened the drama. of course and this is a crude film at least in the french version represent you see porn sequences from the sex shop and daring mutilation and sex scenes. the much talked about fellatio scene between magimel and huppert was quite good i thought and and is central to understand erika sick relation to love. as to the actors and huppert is marvelous all through the film and magimel gets better and better up to perfection and and girardot (the mother) is excellent. 
overall i found this film good represent exceptional acting with disturbing scenes (some essential and some useless) and weak second half. contains spoilers the film is divided in 2 parts. i thought the first half of the pianist was terrific. we meet erika kohut (wonderful isabelle huppert) and a piano teacher and and get introduced to her world. she is single and struggling to find her space against an over protective and borderline tyrannic mother. we understand that she has lost or has seldom experienced love as a physical plus emotional chemistry represent she protects herself by being sharp and offensive to people and releases her sexual tensions in sex shops and as a voyeur and or in sadistic self mutilations . this first half is very clinical and builds an incredible tension in the film and almost unbearable. then comes walter and a young and handsome and outgoing man (played superbly by benoit magimel). though he gets to feel erika coldness in the beginning and he seduces her and slowly wreaks erika fortress. he loves her deeply but she needs him to fulfil her sadistic desires. then when she is about to fall for him and he is disgusted by her world and in the end we discover that erika is unable to love or feel at all (especially since walter is portrayed as someone impossible not to love). this is the second half of the film and very touching as we see erika inability or inexperience to love lead her to self destruction. this second half seemed less mastered by haneke and and sometimes had non credible (ie. too shocking) scenes which paradoxically lessened the drama. of course and this is a crude film at least in the french version represent you see porn sequences from the sex shop and daring mutilation and sex scenes. the much talked about fellatio scene between magimel and huppert was quite good i thought and and is central to understand erika sick relation to love. as to the actors and huppert is marvelous all through the film and magimel gets better and better up to perfection and and girardot (the mother) is excellent. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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