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NEW ZEALAND · 1993
The Piano
Synopsis
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
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New Zealand · Māori and Pacific Cinema
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forbidden love · female agency · arranged marriage · isolation and wilderness · artistic expression
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