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This is the worst movie I've seen so far this year.

posted 12 years ago by dequace
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Flame all you want, regardless, just because a movie is "artsy" and in French does not automatically make it great cinema.

Maybe they had to sacrifice a good actress for the protagonist's role in order to find one who could play the piano? Or is it mimed? Really don't know, don't care. She's just terrible. Acted very poorly, terrifying looking. Extremely hard to identify with an emotionally tortured main character when they just sit around with the same down syndrome expression on their face the whole movie. And then we're supposed to believe the ageless aryan youth wanted to hit that? She wasn't even MILF status. Honey, you aren't attractive enough to be ordering guys around re: what to do with their erections. She was really truly god awful. I can't think of one moment when she was on the screen that I didn't completely hate her.

Besides his obvious attempt to be "edgy," I guess I get what the director was trying to do. The movie really did have an interesting plot... It was just executed very poorly. Really. You better hope whoever you're trying to impress by claiming this is your favourite movie never actually sits down the suffer through it, because if they do, they're going to lose all respect for you.

[–] Son_Of_Frankenhooker 12 years ago

It's difficult to understand what point you're trying to make, because your post is borderline incomprehensible. Are you saying that Isabelle Huppert is a poor actress ?

I like The Piano Teacher, it isn't my favourite film or anything, but I do think it's thought provoking and extremely powerful. I have friends that don't like it, which is their right, but for anyone to say the acting is poor is just absurd. Boring I can understand, but poorly acted ?

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”

[–] rudykawa 12 years ago

I smell a overpatriotic american.

[–] dequace 12 years ago

I've had more time to process the movie since I watched it, and I do agree that it's thought-provoking. It's stayed with me even though I saw it only once in sort of a haunting way. I'd sort of like to watch it again just to take it in a little better, but I honestly don't know if I could sit through the whole thing again. It was very hard to watch.

Regardless, I maintain that I just couldn't stand Isabelle Huppert in this role. I thought she brought the movie down. I understand that the character she's playing has issues and that's what she's trying to portray, but I found myself completely incapable of empathizing with her. I was with her for a while in the whole.. repressed, socially inept, sexually derived, but by the second half of the movie she was just unbearable. I have NOT seen her in other movies, so I DON'T have any other roles to compare it to. You can chock it up to that if you want. :) Nonetheless, the story, for me, just became more and more far fetched as time went on because I felt like the protagonist just intentionally made every situation she was in as horribly awkward as possible.

Anyway, that's just my two cents. I know I'll get hate on IMDB boards, but oh well.