The Piano Teacher

Haneke's brilliant, almost Bergman-esque adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's novel centres on a magnificent performance by Isabelle Huppert as a music professor oppressed by her mother and acquainted with the realms of the emotional and erotic only by watching porn. When a student makes clear his attraction to her, all hell threatens to breaks loose... At once remarkably intense and extremely subtle, it's courageous and deeply compassionate in its readiness to confront suffering.