Winner of 3 Oscars (7 Nominations), Best Actress (Holly Hunter), Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin), and Best Screenplay (Jane Campion)  at the 1994 Academy Awards.

New 4K restoration supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. 

Jane Campion’s Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough remains one of cinema’s great gothic romances. In the 19th century, Ada (Holly Hunter), a mute Scotswoman, and her young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin), both played in Oscar-winning performances, arrive on the storm-lashed coast of colonial New Zealand for Ada’s arranged marriage to the rigid Stewart (Sam Neill). When Stewart sells Ada’s beloved piano, the instrument through which she speaks, to his neighbor Baines (Harvey Keitel), Ada enters into a dangerous key-by-key bargain to reclaim it. 

*screening as a celebration of the life and career of Sam Neill