When an arranged marriage brings Ada (Holly Hunter) and her spirited daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) to the storm-lashed coast of nineteenth-century New Zealand, Ada finds herself locked in a battle of wills between her controlling husband (Sam Neill) and a rugged frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) to whom she develops a deep yet forbidden attraction. Jane Campion’s magnificently lyrical The Piano took the movie world by storm, winning not only the 1993 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, but also Academy Awards® for Hunter (Best Actress) and Paquin (Best Supporting Actress), as well as the Best Original Screenplay Oscar® for writer-director Jane Campion.
