Do you think that you have the right to peace and happiness? To respect and dignity? To acceptance and understanding? It's enough to bring you closer to a toxic family member to destroy any sense of self-respect and slowly suck the happiness from you. A complex square of interconnected characters: a woman, her son, her husband, and his brother in a tangle of love and hate. And one rotten element which slowly destroys them all. The Power of the Dog.
In times when man's income was man's value, the priority of a woman wasn't really to fall in love. She was supposed to be well taken care of, as in the case of her parents' death she had to be supported. But you couldn't help to fall for someone despite financial deficiencies, you couldn't help to develop feelings for the ones who you truly respected and admired. Greatest love stories happened despite reason and sense. When life was so short and so fragile, when you couldn't get used to your own children as their growth to adulthood was so uncertain, could you truly fall for a man? Could love for ribbons and poetry find some mutual ground for the firsts buds of fondness to spring, could they bring together two equally passionate people? Last days of John Keats in Bright Star.
There's a bond that connects mothers and daughters. A bond very few understand. Years of conversations, memories shared, experiences bestowed trigger something deeper than comparisons and jealousy that in time might arise. And once isolated at the end of the world they have each other, despite bad relationships, despite traumas and stresses of everyday life. Piano is a film about a mother and a daughter. But its sensuality, colonial background, and a difficult but ecstatic romance make it always a film worth our attention. In times when a woman was a commodity, purchased and transferred, mute against her husband's consent, could she have a chance for the true love? Could she win against small-mindedness of her neighbours, harshness of the surroundings, and find passion and fullfillment with another man? Unforgettable Holly Hunter as a woman finally getting back her voice. Enjoy.

