at the end of my review of cache and i write that i be intrigue with haneke a a film maker . this be what lead me to get the dvd for la pianiste and which i just finish watch about a half hour ago . it all be express and here at imdb and in many of the external review the gruesomely twisted pathology that would create an individual like huppert erika and who be still try and after year and year and to please her mother and at the expense of everyone and everything else in her life and begin with her self . she repress everything that would free her from her self impose bondage and include and of course and her sexuality and which have literally implode and to the point of madness and to where she can no longer even begin to comprehend what a genuine loving impulse would feel like . this be a graphic portrait of a severe emotional cripple and one who never find the strength to get out of her childhood situation and become a functioning adult . i think this subject relate to all of u be all strive for autonomy and but there be need and so many conflict need and most of which be not even on the conscious level . it also deal brilliantly with the contrast between what one fantasize about and sexually and and the reality of those fantasy and as well a the consequence of choose to share one sexual fantasy with another human be . huppert character get what she ask for in the course of the film and and it be hardly the emancipating experience she have imagine it to be . regard the much discuss scene in the bathroom represent i really appreciate how this sequence have all the possible erotic charge ( for the viewer and i mean ) suck out of it because of the prior scene and where she put the glass in the girl pocket . by the time she act out her let see if this guy be worthy scenario in the bathroom and we have already find out that she dangerously disturb and so it not a turn on and her little domination session with our poor unsuspecting dupe . i think another incredible achievement of this movie be how and about halfway through it and i completely forget that it be not in english and that i be read sub title . that have never happen before and in any foreign movie and and i have see quite a few . in this film and like cache and the end be not all wrap up in a nice little tidy bow and but unlike cache and we do at least get some sense of finality and despite the fact that we do not even know for sure whether huppert character be alive or dead . after experience la pianiste and when it come to michael haneke and i be and needless to say and more than a trifle intrigued .