The Piano

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

The Piano

4K Remaster—Opens July 31

In this Academy Award-winning classic from director Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), an arranged marriage brings Ada (Holly Hunter) and her spirited daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, where she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband Alisdair (Sam Neill) and a rugged frontiersman George (Harvey Keitel), to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This new 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 35mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafilm lab in Australia. Color grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and Stuart Dryburgh, with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences used as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was remastered from the original 24-track digital.

"The Piano is dark, sublime music, and after it's over, you won't be able to get it out of your head."
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
"Great art is both immediately accessible and eternally elusive, having at its centre a powerful simplicity that speaks to anyone who cares to listen, that rewards every interpretation while embracing none. The Piano is great art."
The Globe and Mail, Rick Groen

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