The Piano Teacher (2001)

Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a failed concert pianist who teaches at the Viennese Music Conservatory, and still shares a bedroom with her tyrannical mother in their shabby apartment. Contemptuous of the pupils she's forced to teach, Erika harbours dark secrets: she consumes hardcore pornography, spies on lovers at drive-ins and even performs acts of genital self-mutilation. A student (Benoît Magimel) seeks to seduce her, but is shocked when she presents him with her sexual demands...

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