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The Piano (1993)

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• The play performed in the movie is an adaptation of "Bluebeard", which is a French fairy tale recorded by Charles Perrault about a man who marries, kills his wives after they fail a test, stashes their bodies in a small chamber, then marries again. In the original story, the main character (Bluebeard's current wife) escapes her psychopathic husband and finds happiness elsewhere.
  
  
• The last movie Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain watched before he died.
  
  
• Holly Hunter played most of the piano sequences herself.
  
  

• Jane Campion became the first woman to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with this film, though she was unable to receive the award in person as she was due to give birth.
  
  

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