The Piano
Release Date: November
12, 1993
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English /
Maori
Director: Jane Campion
(Read Related : The
Last Song)
Who's In It:
Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel as George Baines
Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath
Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag
Cliff Curtis as Mana
Soundtrack / Songs:
The Piano: Original Music From The Film - Soundtrack - Michael
Nyman - 1993
1. To The Edge Of The Earth
2. Big My Secret
3. A Wild and Distant Shore
4. The Heart Asks Pleasure First (From 'the Piano')
5. Here To There
6. The Promise
7. A Bed Of Ferns
8. The Fling
9. The Scent Of Love
10. Deep Into The Forest
11. The Mood That Passes Through You
12. Lost and Found
13. The Embrace
14. Little Impulse
15. The Sacrifice
16. I Clipped Your Wing
17. The Wounded
18. All Imperfect Things
19. Dreams Of A Journey
(Read Related : The
Wings Of The Dove)
Quotes From The Piano:
Ada: At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave,
and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything
is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is
a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.
George Baines: I want to lie together without clothes on.
Ada: The voice you hear is not my speaking voice---but my mind's
voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows
why---not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the
day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last.
Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter
and I shall join him in his own country. My husband writes that
my muteness does not bother him--and hark this! He says, "God
loves dumb creatures, so why not I?" 'Twere good he had God's
patience, for silence affects everyone in the end. The strange
thing is, I don't think myself silent. That is because of my piano.
I shall miss it on the journey.
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