Join Birds Eye View and Women & Hollywood for a special 25th anniversary screening of Jane Campion’s groundbreaking film, The Piano.

This is a preview of the new 4K Digital Restoration of the film, released by the Indepentent Cinema Office and Stutiocanal on 15 June.

The film is followed by an A&Q discussion with speakers Melissa Silverstein (the celebrated agitator who runs Women & Hollywood), Mia Bays (producer of Oscar-winning and multi-BAFTA nominated films, who now runs Birds’ Eye View), Kate Muir (film critic and novelist) + more special guests TBC!

Jane Campion became the first female director to win the Palme d’Or for The Piano, her extraordinary, triumphant masterpiece about a mute woman’s rebellion in a newly colonised, Victorian-era New Zealand.

Holly Hunter gives a majestic silent performance as Ada McGrath, the mute Scotswoman and talented pianist who arrives with her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) in the New Zealand wilderness. She is to marry frontiersman Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), having been sold him by her father, but takes an immediate dislike to him after he refuses to carry her beloved piano home with them, instead selling it to his overseer George Baines (Harvey Keitel).

Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for lessons that gradually become a series of erotically charged sexual encounters. As the story unfolds like a Greek tragedy, complete with a chorus of Maori tribes, all of the characters’ long suppressed emotions come to the fore, as if elicited by the wildness of the natural world around them.

Note to Reclaim The Frame Influencers: BEV will be making a number of complimentary tickets available to Reclaim The Frame Influencers –  stay tuned for the email!

With thanks to Studio Canal, Independent Cinema Office, Curzon Mayfair and Women & Hollywood.