Writer/director Jane Campion tells story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, just expresses herself trough her piano. Ada McGrath and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find themselves in the New Zealand wilderness, Ada is the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam Neill). The story evolves around the piano and the rebellion of Ada against her situation of being forced to be a wife to a man she did not know neither she could love.
The main reason I love The Piano is the way Jane Campion tells the rebellion of Ada in such a tantalizing, genuine way. The acting of Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel is supreme. The music by Michael Nyman is delightful, so romantic and poetic. I think Jane Campion deserved to win the Oscar Award for best director but she did not because of the misogyny of some academy members.
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