THE PIANO

Special Features: New 4K Restoration

Ada (Holly Hunter) — mute since the age of six — her nine-year-old daughter (Anna Paquin) and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of 19th-century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband (Sam Neil) refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate, tattooed neighbor (Harvey Keitel). She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex, emotional, sexual bond remarkable for its naive passion and frightening disregard for limits. Jane Campion was the first female filmmaker to win the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her bristling romance, which also earned three Academy Awards® — for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. (Note adapted from Sony Pictures Classics.) DIR/SCR Jane Campion; PROD Jan Chapman. Australia/France/New Zealand, 1993, color, 121 min. In English, Māori and British Sign Language with English subtitles. RATED R

In Memoriam: Sam Neill (1947–2026)

The new 4K restoration was supervised, color-graded and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh, using a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as reference, with assistance from Fixafilm Australia, with 5.1 audio mix remastered from the original 24-track digital.

Run Time: 121 Minutes

Opening Date: Monday, November 16, 2026

Genre: Romance drama

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