When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker
Crew: Michael Nyman (Original Music Composer), Jane Campion (Director), Jane Campion (Screenplay), Veronika Jenet (Editor), Stuart Dryburgh (Director of Photography), Meryl Cronin (Set Decoration)
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France
Language: English,
Studio: CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
Runtime: 120 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 18, 1993
IMDb: 3.6
Keywords:adultery, secret love, beach, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, culture clash, sexuality, arranged marriage, strangeness, violent husband, new zealand, maori, settler, wilderness, mute, pianist, playing piano, woman director, sign languages, piano, 19th century, severed finger, mother daughter relationship
