Tonight at the Alamo: Sex That Makes You Hate Sex
As part of the AFS Essentials series on the films of superhuman director Michel Haneke, the Alamo Downtown will be running The Piano Teacher (or "La Pianiste", if you want to impress somebody impressionable) tonight. Do not let this film still of a scene of passion in a public restroom deceive you; this movie will not inspire you to do the popcorn trick on anybody, but rather to rush out and invest in a chastity belt. But - in a good way!
This bleak and wrenching film about a washed-up and repressed piano teacher who kindles a sorta-romance with a cocky young student stars the equally superhuman actress Isabelle Huppert, who's in a couple of Haneke's other movies (don't miss her as the fierce mother in the post-apocalyptic Time of the Wolf - but be sure and Netflix the Haneke one, not the other one with Jason Priestley in it). There are scenes involving dirty hockey equipment, door-barricading with wardrobes, metaphysical discussions of the madness of Schumann, and a pocket full of maliciously broken glass. This is not The Mary Kay LeTourneau Story, and thank God for that.
AFS Essentials: The Piano Teacher
Tuesday, May 8th
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
7pm, $4 / Free to AFS Members
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