The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 26m.
Synopsis
When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Metacritic76/100
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Ann OrenDirector
- Ann OrenScreenplay
- Thais GuisasolaScreenplay
Cast
- Simone BucioEva
- Simon(è) Jaikiriuma PaetauZara
- Sebastian RudolphNovak
- Lea DraegerGretchen
- Josef OstendorfPsychiater
- Ruth RosenfeldDr. Rosenfeld
- Nico EhrenteitMoritz
- Tristan BummLaborant
- Bjørn MelhusPiotr
- Hannah MüllerBarkeeperin
- Catherine MayerReiterin
- Kristof GeregaVeterinär