I feel like talking a little bit about this, if I can. While The Piano Teacher has been one of my favorite films for some time now, I only just finished reading the novel for the first time. I think Michael Haneke did a beautiful job at adapting it. The film does go to disturbing places, but to my surprise the novel presents them in higher detail. The self harming in the novel was some of the most unsettling material I've read in a while and I appreciate Haneke's restrained approach to showing that. If a different type of director, one with a more salacious style, were adapting it then it would have felt exploitative. I don't want to get too far into my own business, but there's aspects of Erika that really speak to me. Isabelle Huppert is phenomenal, she really understood this character. I love her. I am rather tired of constantly seeing that one scene from Sentimental Value when I search The Piano Teacher, but Stellan's character was right.…