Mary Kunz Goldman was for over 10 years the classical music critic for The Buffalo News, the daily paper of Buffalo, N.Y. She is also the authorized biographer of the great American pianist Leonard Pennario.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Twisted sister
Just now looking around for this and that, I happened on this picture that was used on the advertisements for "The Piano Teacher," a movie that came out a few years ago.
Wow, was that false advertising or what?
Did anyone else see that movie?
What a doozie!
It was dark and strange and weird and twisted. And they hook you by showing you this slightly comic picture of two people indulging in, ahem, amour on a bathroom floor.
See?
As if it is some kind of romantic comedy!
Whereas in real life, I mean in the movie, there was this woman, the Isabelle Huppert character, brooding to Schubert and mutilating herself. I had to write something about it in the paper and I can't remember what in the world I wrote. I do remember resenting the movie. It fed into the notion a lot of people have that people into classical piano are crazy.
There was some kind of romance between this twisted teacher and this younger guy, her student, but as I recall it lasted about five minutes.
We should sue.
I think the bigger story is that the picture features North Buffalo floor tile!
ReplyDeleteHoward, that floors me! That is the real story!
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