

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Cinema Classics Seminar: THE PIANO (1993)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Tuesday, March 10, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm  
Instructor: Elizabeth Nathanson, Ph.D., Muhlenberg College

Although The Piano tells the story of a woman who cannot speak, it landed loudly on the global film scene when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. A complex mixture of Gothic storytelling, costume drama, maternal melodrama, and torrid romance, THE PIANO was widely celebrated on the awards circuit, with director Jane Campion becoming the first woman to ever win a Palme d’Or and the second to be nominated for the Best Director prize at the Academy Awards.  

Set in the 19th century, the film tells the story of Ada (Holly Hunter), a mute Scottish woman who is sent with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) to live with a new husband in rural New Zealand. Ada and Flora land on desolate beaches accompanied by Ada’s beloved piano, an instrument that not only speaks with and for Ada but is imbued with deep symbolic and emotional meaning. 

This seminar will explore this richly complicated film, considering the array of relationships that it presents, and its depictions of romance, motherhood, colonialism, and freedom. We will also discuss the movie’s visual style, exploring how the lush, haunting images of windswept landscapes and the use of Victorian costuming set the stage for this fraught human drama, and how it tells its story, sometimes using no words at all.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bryn-mawr/cinema-classics-seminar-the-piano-1993/200029682999616
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, music, workshops, performances, art, theatre, festivals, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bryn Mawr
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute
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- **full address**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W Lancaster Ave,Bryn Mawr,PA,United States

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- **organizer**: Bryn Mawr Film Institute (https://allevents.in/org/bryn-mawr-film-institute/3001876)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W Lancaster Ave,Bryn Mawr,PA,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bryn Mawr Film Institute
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, music, workshops, performances, art, theatre, festivals, storytelling
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