Of all the reasons you will read about why not to see 50 Shades of Grey – and there will be many as everyone thinks their armchair two cents is the most valuable in this debate – the most important question to ask is why people, men and their female sympathisers in particular, hate it […]
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April
23
The Piano Teacher – Jelinek and Haneke and Austria. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
In 2001 when Michael Haneke decided to adapt Elfriede Jelinek’s amazing novel The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek had not yet won the Nobel Prize for her work, and Haneke had not yet made The White Ribbon. The Piano Teacher is a direct (and one of many regular) criticism of Austrian society by Elfriede Jelinek. She […]
Lisa Thatcher 