The Piano (1993)
Directed by Jane Campion · Cinematography by Stuart Dryburgh
R121 min62 frames
DramaRomance
Silence affects everyone in the end.
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What is The Piano about?
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.
The Piano is a 1993 historical romance film written and directed by Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a settler. The plot has similarities to Jane Mander's 1920 novel, The Story of a New Zealand River, but also substantial differences. Campion has cited the novels Wuthering Heights and The African Queen as inspirations.
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What does the cinematography of The Piano look like?
Across 61 sampled frames, The Piano builds its coverage from close-ups (33% of the sample), with wide compositions (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh keeps 56% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 57% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Piano?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Piano (1993) are #30312d, #50534e, #121414, #8d8d8d, #71706b, #d3d1ce — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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