Directed by Michael Haneke The Castle is a bureaucratic, alienating nightmare based on an unfinished Franz Kafka novel. In it a man named K. arrives to a wintery, barren village with the promise that he is to be made the Land Surveyor. When he arrives no one knows of such arrangements and he is instead … Continue reading The Castle (1997)
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Directed by Michael Haneke Like The Seventh Continent, this is a film that builds to a particularly violent tragedy, attempting to show the steps leading to that fateful conclusion without ever explaining why. Both films try to objectively depict the people who head down such a path, but the lack of any apparent motivation suggests that … Continue reading 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Directed by Michael Haneke Everything is fragmented in The Seventh Continent. Like Haneke's Code Unknown (2000), the film is separated with cuts to black between every scene. Some of these scenes are brief vignettes, and in those cuts to black we have no real sense of how much time has passed. We know right off the bat … Continue reading The Seventh Continent (1989)
Code Unkown (2000)
Directed by Michael Haneke *This post is longer than it should be because I try to figure out how best to describe my affections for a movie I probably don't yet really understand. So I figured I'd love Code Unknown going in, and I do. This says less about the film and more about what piques … Continue reading Code Unkown (2000)
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