Chelsea Fierce Female Series: “The Piano”

Holly Hunter’s aching, eloquent silence informs her Academy Award–winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman whose feelings are expressed through her beloved piano. An arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the nineteenth-century New Zealand wilderness, where she is locked in a battle of wills, defying her controlling husband while attracted to a rugged frontiersman.

Drama, 121 mins

Tuesday, 3/15 @ 7 p.m. with introduction by Rachel Schaevitz, film scholar and co-host of Moonlight Awards film history podcast