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The Piano

★★★★☆  film

The Piano

A mute woman speaks only through a piano on a New Zealand beach, and Jane Campion transmutes desire and control into something you feel in your teeth. Holly Hunter never utters a word and says absolutely everything.

what it left me with

When they take your voice, find the instrument it never occurred to them to confiscate.

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