Word: coarser
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...Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only toward the end, when the sadistic teacher becomes the terrified victim. But Huppert, the cinema's most dauntingly intelligent actress, keeps luring the viewer back into her character...