Later, at Stewart’s house, Ada looks out the window with the same longing. Campion positions her atop a cliff, looking down at the instrument. Campion narrows her focus onto Ada’s fingers entering the dark, intimate space and caressing the keys.Īda’s yearning is magnified when the piano is left behind on the beach. On the beach, as she and daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) wait for her new husband Alisdair Stewart (Sam Neill) to retrieve them, Ada removes some of the piano’s packing material, like she’s unbuttoning a shirt. She touches the piano like a lover, with tenderness, recognition, and the thrill of discovery. Ada’s piano is also an object suffused with her repressed desire, articulated through Michael Nyman’s rapturous compositions. Campion gives us access to mute Ada McGrath’s (Holly Hunter) voice when her fingers touch her beloved piano, which has travelled all the way from Scotland to New Zealand with her. In The Piano (1993), Jane Campion’s gorgeous, Gothic romance, it speaks multiple dialects.
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