Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
DIRECTOR
CAST

Isabelle Huppert
Erika Kohut

Annie Girardot
The Mother

Benoît Magimel
Walter Klemmer

Susanne Lothar
Mrs. Schober
Language
Production
Box Office
Budget
$3,000,000
Revenue
$6,766,708
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Keywords
mother
concert
based on novel or book
fetish
conservatory
masochism
victim
piano lessons
teacher
love
perversion
loneliness
female protagonist
pianist
attraction
vienna, austria
desire
domineering mother
older woman younger man relationship
character study
voyeur
piano
abuse
repression
self-harm
mother daughter relationship
kink
power dynamics
age-gap relationship
romantic
complex
bold