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NEW ZEALAND · 1993

The Piano

Jane Campion
Māori and Pacific Cinema forbidden love female agency arranged marriage isolation and wilderness artistic expression
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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.

Year1993
CountryNew Zealand
DirectorJane Campion
MovementMāori and Pacific Cinema
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