JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

aquauver We have to watch this movie with a earphone.The music sounding through the movie,a great musician made,is amazing.How to play music,and how she move fingers is also good.It looks like a beautiful bird fly.I can see it forever,along with music.The concept of this music is maybe to release from a burden or freedom from the wall confronting us unconsciously.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Until now l'd watched exactly 8.732 movies in my lifetime this is my 131 that l gave a high rating 10/10, as the numbers shows in fact just a few reach such number,The Piano is one's of them, powerful, haunting and touching...the plot is really original the casting is wonderful, Holly Hunter as mute Ada has a stunning performance mainly when she play the piano that spoke for her, Ana Pasquin as little child Flora is another unforgettable character and finally Harvey Keitel as neighbor Baines who has perhaps your best acting ever as an illiterate person... the rain forest provide a proper backdrop to tell so touching story of love...Jane Campion make a true masterpiece symbolizing the real cinema should be...now l understand why famous actor persecutes such roles like that where the money can't buy...just honor!!!Long life to the cinema!!!!

sandyhummer This is the first time I have made the effort to write a review for IMDb. The poor quality of this movie, The Piano, led me to make the effort. I agree entirely with the review written by lotus_chief, titled "One of the worst movies I've ever seen!", so I won't repeat all of that. There is very very little substance to any of the characters. To whatever extent there is anything to the characters or to the plot, they amount to a miasma of contradictions. The movie doesn't make you think. There isn't any message in this Rorschach-test of a movie other than whatever the viewer decides to read into it. It's a pretentious mess.

Alexandre Arena Filho I don't understand some of the praise The Piano received. Holly Hunter's acting is not as good as I expected. She mostly keeps the same emotionless face throughout the movie, even in the two scenes where Ada certainly feels incredible pain. I don't see how challenging could it be for an actress to pull that off. Young Anna Paquin is good, but not as good as I thought she would be. She is adorable and does an accent and all, but not for a moment blew my mind.Some say this is feminist. Maybe it's because I'm a man and can't fully understand it, but watching the movie I thought my female feminist friends would feel offended by the screenplay. Ada is weak and allows awful things to happen to her - yes, she loves that piano and wants it back (you could never tell by Hunter's expressions), but maybe she should have been more "vocal" about it instead of becoming a prostitute. She hardly resists such disgusting proposals, even though she's not supposed to be perceived as a slut.Some say this is romantic and passionate. To me, it felt like a creepy story about a woman who falls in "love" with a disgusting man, and it reminded me of Stockholm syndrome. It worked a lot better in Beauty and the Beast. The Piano is a very unpleasant movie, and no eye candy could save it.