Okay, another recommendation, and a New Zealand one!
Ada McGrath and daughter comes to New Zealand as a mail order bride (as was the style at the time), however her would be husband doesn't care for her piano skills, although that is the only was she has of expressing herself. George Baines does show interested in her and her skills, and her playing the piano makes her horny and so she gives into Baines' desires. Oops, and as it turns out the would be husband is a mess ("you make me hurt you"), so, frankly, sod him.
Okay, this is a decent picture, Holly Hunter gives a good performance, Sam Neill does his job well, and even Anna Paquin is quite good. Harvey Keitel isn't believable as whatever character he was playing, and I didn't really want to see him (or Holly Hunter) naked.
Better people than me can tell you what the piano is a metaphor for, but damn, can Holly Hunter play it well! So hat off to Jane Campion but to be honest...
This movie isn't really one for me.
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