KnowraThe Piano TeacherLinked fromLinked fromThe 5 pages that link to The Piano Teacher, each with the reason it gives.All 5Broader topic 5Austrian literatureBroader topic: Its unsparing view of bourgeois Vienna challenges nostalgic images of Austrian culture.Isabelle HuppertBroader topic: Huppert’s performance as Erika Kohut won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress award.Michael HanekeBroader topic: Haneke adapts Elfriede Jelinek’s novel into a study of repression and coercive intimacy.Elfriede JelinekBroader topic: This novel’s sexual violence and mother-daughter conflict crystallize themes found across her work.Annie GirardotBroader topic: Girardot plays Erika’s domineering mother in Haneke’s adaptation.