Michael Haneke, the Austrian director who has crossed national boundaries to make films in France, the US and now in Germany with Das weisse Band (The White Ribbon, 2009) – newly crowned with the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival – is concerned with the ethical problem inherent in the viewing situation. The [...]
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A thorough examination of Michael Haneke’s troubling film about the sins of the past and their effects on the present.
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: ARTE France Cinéma/Bavaria Films/Filmex/Les Films Alain Sarde/France 2 Cinéma/MK2 Productions/Romanian Culture Ministry/Le Studio Canal+/Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Prod: Marin Karmitz, Alain Sarde Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Karin Martusch, Nadine Muse, Andreas Prochaska Prod Des: Emmanuel de Chauvigny [...]
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Marie Homolkova Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Cast: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel, Branko Samarovski Michael Haneke is one of the [...]
The Time of the Wolf/Le Temps du loup (2003 France/Austria/Germany 110 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: ARTE/Bavaria Films/CNC/Eurimages/France 3 Cinéma/Le Studio Canal+/Les Films du Losange/Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Nadine Muse, Monika Willi Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Lucas Biscombe, [...]
The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente Kontinent (1989 Austria 104 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Anton Peschke Ed: Marie Homolkova Art Dir: Christoph Kanter Cast: Dieter Berner, Udo Samel, Leni Tanzer, Silvia Fenz, Robert Dietl, Birgit Doll Michael Haneke’s masterful first film The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente [...]
Funny Games (1997 Austria 103 mins) Source: Bavarian Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Andreas Prochaska Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Mus: Excerpts from Handel, Mascagni, Mozart, Zorn Cast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann Watching Michael Haneke’s Funny Games [...]
Haneke’s latest film takes us to the limits of empathy in its analysis of sexual dysfunction and the repressions of high culture.
Fragmented yet logical, estranging yet compassionate, Haneke’s films find new ways to dramatise and diagnose contemporary alienation.
