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When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process. Nothing is as it was. We are in a silent world. What starts out as the story of one family quickly develops into a collective tragedy. But it is also a legend, and as such the story of a sacrifice and, perhaps, the story of a saint… –Cannes Film Festival

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Michael Haneke

Cheerfully wishing his audience a “disturbing evening” at a London retrospective of his films, director Michael Haneke insists that he is an optimist at heart, despite all of the relentlessly bleak carnage and deeply disturbing imagery so vividly painted and seared into the mind of anyone who has had the uncomfortable experience of viewing his work.

Practically born into show business, to an actress mother and director father, in Munich in March 1942, Haneke spent his early years in a working class suburb of Vienna before an early attempt at fame as an actor and pianist. Failing to achieve early success, Haneke attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy and psychology, and became a film critic and stage director before making his eventual debut as a television director with After Liverpool in 1973. Setting in motion a television career specializing in literary adaptations and small screen films, Haneke would work successfully in that medium until his feature debut… read more

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AdamantCocoon

29Sep11

I was more removed watching Hidden and found White Ribbon and Funny Games too smug and pedantic. La Pianiste stuns and this one....pretty close. So what's left for me to see...Code Unknown?

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Francisco R.

6May11

It features the usual heart-pounding scenes you might expect from the director, but i wasn't very impressed with this one, the post-apocalyptic setting draws some genuinely good moments from Haneke's bleak style but it feels too bare-bones in the end.

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Lee

9Mar11

Ya I get it Haneke. Even in a post-apocalyptic setting the trapping of our culture racism, sexism, violence and isolation still hold supreme. But really, I mean really? This is shit. I understand that part of his style is allowing the viewer to fill in the blanks but he is so vague that I never feel attached to any of it. I love his other films but his is a lifeless, unimaginative, pretentious, piece of crap.

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masood

4Feb11

unbelievable moments of nowhere. Haneke tries to build unforgettable scenes to think. To ponder about our society

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MICHAEL HANEKE'S REALISTIC LOOK AT A POST APOCALYPTIC WORLD

By Marcus WP on August 28, 2011

With an earthquake and a hurricane on the horizon all in the same week, I cant help but think the end is near (relax, I’m just joking…kinda). I’m in somewhat of a post apocalyptic mood right now and…  read review

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