A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher / La pianiste (2001) Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte Read More »
The Castle / Das Schloß (1997) Michael Haneke, Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse Read More »
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) Michael Haneke, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man. Read More »
The White Ribbon / Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) Michael Haneke, Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Drama, Mystery
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron’s son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron’s household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
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