Article: CRUELTY AND DELIGHT IN EQUAL MEASURE.(U)(Review)

Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic

ANYONE WHO'S EVER suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy, repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved. These people are really going to love ``The Piano Teacher.''

So, too, will fans of the incomparable French actress Isabelle Huppert and European theater-of-cruelty cinema (the movie won the top acting awards and the grand jury prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival). Even they may find stretches of it hard to take, but abundant rewards are there for viewers who can tune into them.

Directed in Vienna (but in French) by Austrian master of ...

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