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The Piano Teacher review



Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory noted music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-shrink from and dependency, where there is no leeway for men. Her shafting life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Abandoned and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recapitulation, she befriends Walter, a handsome callow man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of nervous disorder, she uses the take pleasure in-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which finally lead to her misfortune.

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