psychosexuality

belle de jour / the lighthouse / crash / la pianiste / blue velvet / possession

La Pianiste, 2001, Michael Haneke

la pianiste (2001)

La Pianiste (2001)

“After all, love is built on banal things.”

The Piano Teacher (2001) dir. Michael Haneke

we need an alcohol free queer space for adults with no friends to meet each other

cate blanchett girls

La Pianiste (2001)

Tár (2022)

cinematic parallels

Type of shit I’ve been on lately (various La Pianiste illustrations)

The Piano Teacher (2001) Dir. Michael Haneke

oh how i wish

ピアニスト Cine Switch vol.100 ヘラルド・エンタープライズ 監督：ミヒャエル・ハネケ／出演：イザベル・ユペール、ブノワ・マジメル、アニー・ジラルド ほか

isabelle huppert

All Erika wants to do is watch. Here, in this booth, she becomes nothing. Nothing fits into Erika, but she, she fits exactly into this cell. Erika is a compact tool in human form. Nature seems to have left no apertures in her. Erika feels solid wood in the place where the carpenter made a hole in any genuine female. Erika's wood is spongy, decaying, lonesome wood in the timber forest, and the rot is spreading. Still, Erika struts around like a queen. (...) Erika lifts up a tissue from the floor; it is encrusted with sperm. She holds it to her nose. She deeply inhales the aroma, the fruits of someone else's hard labor. She breathes and looks, using up a wee bit of her life. There are clubs where you can shoot pictures. Each client selects his model himself, according to his mood and taste. But Erika doesn't want to act, she only wants to look. She simply wants to sit there and look. Look hard. Erika, watching but not touching. Erika feels nothing, and has no chance to caress herself. Her mother sleeps next to her and guards Erika's hands. These hands are supposed to practice, not scoot under the blanket like ants and scurry over to the jam jar. Even when Erika cuts or pricks herself, she feels almost nothing. But when it comes to her eyes, she has reached an acme of sensitivity. (...) Erika watches very closely. Not in order to learn. Nothing stirs or moves within her. But she has to watch all the same. For her own pleasure. (...) Erika can't help it. She has to keep looking. She is off-limits to herself.

The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek.

michael haneke, la pianiste, 2001