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Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
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CODE UNKNOWN: INCOMPLETE TALES OF SEVERAL JOURNEYS

Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages

Directed by Michael Haneke
France, Romania, 2000
Drama

Synopsis

In Paris, a single careless act of littering triggers racial tensions and legal issues seen through Anne, Georges, Maria, and Amadou’s perspectives. Their lives intertwine amidst societal challenges.

Synopsis

In Paris, a single careless act of littering triggers racial tensions and legal issues seen through Anne, Georges, Maria, and Amadou’s perspectives. Their lives intertwine amidst societal challenges.

Our take

The incisive and always polarizing Michael Haneke made his first film in France with this fragmentary study of violence and racism in the streets of Paris. Code Unknown finds Binoche, at her most raw and immediate, playing an actor in an exactingly piercing interrogation of Europe’s ruling class.