The Piano lunette and female sexual liberation: decades

and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed

hallucinatory central dance sequence

who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy

director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse

The Piano lunette and female sexual liberation: decadesWith this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme dOr at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through silence in her Academy Awardwinning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter (Anna Paquin, in her Oscar winning debut) to the wilderness of