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• W91915068 abstract "Jane Campion's biographical film about New Zealand writer Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table, ends with a scene of Janet working at her typewriter and achieving a moment of creative satisfaction. As she finishes writing and taps the keys, she reads her lines aloud in a voice-over: Hush-hush-hush, the grass, and the wind and the fir and the sea are saying: hush-hush-hush. This last scene that connects artistic creation to a call for silence in nature provides a nice thematic linkage to Campion's next film, The Piano, about a woman named Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), who, mute by choice, expresses herself not through the keys of a typewriter but rather through the keys of her beloved piano. Ada is a mail-order bride brought with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) to New Zealand in the middle of the nineteenth century to be the wife of Stewart (Sam Neill), a rich, colonial landowner. However, Ada finds her passions aroused by their neighbor, Baines (Harvey Keitel), a white man who lives among the native Maoris. An Angel at My Table traces the development of a writer from childhood to adulthood and suggests the lifesaving role art played throughout her struggles. In The Piano, Campion broadens her canvas to create a meditation on art and art-making in its many facets. Ada's expressive sign language, Flora's verbal translation of her mother's signing that duplicates Ada's emotions, and the bed-time stories Ada dramatically signs to Flora all function as everyday examples of art. Seemingly simple things like the very act of communication, then, take on an artistic flair for Ada and Flora as Ada creates a kind of personal art through her facial expressions and graceful sign language. On a larger scale, art is found in more obvious places like Ada's music, Flora's imaginative storytelling, and the community production of Bluebeard. Art in The Piano is at its most transcendent and life-giving when it works together with nature, whereas attempts at art divorced from nature fail miserably. This theme is foregrounded in the credits themselves as the filmmaker's credit, Written and directed by Jane Campion, appears on a shot of the waves rolling in toward the beach. The creative power of the filmmaker is joined from the outset to the awesome power of nature, just as Ada's piano shares a space (in the first part of the film) with the forces of nature on the shore. Lacking sensitivity to his new wife's needs and, by extension, to the artistic life, Stewart refuses to haul the piano from the beach to his home, and so it stands as a symbol of beautiful incongruity, a lone piano holding its place against the onslaught of the waves behind it. When Stewart goes away for a few days and Ada convinces Baines to escort her and Flora to the beach, Baines sees something he has never seen before and is changed forever. Ada plays her piano from the depths of her soul in what seems to be a magical outpouring of music; she is enraptured by the moment and smiles joyfully for the first time as Flora dances and cartwheels along the beach. Ada's art, then, brings out the best in her daughter, who is able to perform spontaneously to the music. Like the singers and dancers of a traditional movie musical who could turn any setting into a site of musical expression, Ada and Flora can turn a natural setting into a personal concert space for themselves and create art in the most unlikely of settings. At the end of the sequence, we see from a high angle that Flora has made a giant seahorse out of sand and rocks on the beach-evidence that she can create artwork out of the raw materials of nature, that, indeed, a perfect day concludes when art and nature literally meet. In its simplicity, this scene on the beach testifies to the redemptive power of art, which not only unites mother and daughter in a personal moment of transcendence but also begins to bring Baines out of his solitude. Love at first sight may be a tired cliche in the movies, but The Piano reinvents the concept. …" @default.
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• W91915068 title "Keys to the Imagination: Jane Campion's the Piano" @default.
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