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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Why this pick
Its restrained, intensely physical romance gives glances, art and silence the expressive force that music carries in The Piano, with a similarly elemental coastal setting.
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MOVIE1993 2h 1m NZL
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A mute Scots people named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. Ada has not spoken a word since she was six and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who "became frightened and stopped listening", and thus left her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
Cliff Curtis
Mana
Ian Mune
Reverend
Rose McIver
Angel