![]() ![]() ![]() "I have not spoken since I was 6 years old," Ada's voice tells us on the soundtrack. They have been rowed ashore, along with Ada's piano, to meet a local bachelor named Stewart ( Sam Neill), who has arranged to marry her. The film opens with the arrival of a 30ish woman named Ada ( Holly Hunter) and her young daughter, Flora ( Anna Paquin), on a stormy gray beach. ![]() It is a story of shyness, repression and loneliness of a woman who will not speak and a man who cannot listen, and of a willful little girl who causes mischief and pretends she didn't mean to. It tells a story of love and fierce pride, and places it on a bleak New Zealand coast where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. "The Piano" is as peculiar and haunting as any film I've seen. ![]()
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