A mute woman's piano becomes her voice in a bleak new world, forging an intimate, forbidden connection.
Melancholy. A full-attention watch that takes its time. Emotionally it is devastating.
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No surprises for an R: moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-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.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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