The Piano

Sam Neill Tribute Screening

New 4K Restoration 

Ada—mute since birth—(Holly Hunter) arrives in the remote bush of nineteenth-century New Zealand with her nine-year-old daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), and her piano for an arranged marriage to Alisdair Stewart (Sam Neill). Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate, tattooed neighbor, George Baines (Harvey Keitel). She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays—one black key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex emotional and sexual bond, remarkable for its naïve passion and frightening disregard for limits.

The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This new 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 35mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafilm lab in Australia. Color grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and Stuart Dryburgh, with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences used as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was remastered from the original 24-track digital.

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