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: Jane Campion (Director), Jane Campion (Screenplay), Michael Nyman (Original Music Composer), Stuart Dryburgh (Director of Photography), Veronika Jenet (Editor), Meryl Cronin (Set Decoration)
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Language: English,
Studio: New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000
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
