Overview
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Details
- Director
- Jane Campion
- Writer
- Jane Campion
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $7,000,000
Cast
Anna Paquin
Bruce Allpress
Cliff Curtis
Geneviève Lemon
Harvey Keitel
Holly Hunter
Ian Mune
Kerry Walker
Pete Smith
Sam Neill
Keywords
19th century
adultery
arranged marriage
beach
culture clash
isolation
jealousy
love triangle
maori
mother daughter relationship
mute
new zealand
pianist
piano
playing piano
secret love
settler
severed finger
sexuality
sign languages
strangeness
violent husband
wilderness
woman director
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