DRUNK
In Drunk, everything is shown exclusively through the protagonist’s perspective. And so, just like him, we too feel confused and experience everything as a decidedly alienating experience. Alienating but undoubtedly visually captivating.
Category: 1989
PIÈCE TOUCHÉE
The protagonists of Pièce Touchée are first and foremost time and filmic space. Time and space that can be manipulated by the director over hundreds of ways, each time exploiting all the possibilities that the seventh art has to offer us. And when creativity runs free, even the great Hollywood films are ready to abandon every convention forever.
WAR IN VIENNA
A cynical and disillusioned perspective focuses mainly on the numerous paradoxes that come to life when different realities are shown to us one after the other. We laugh a lot, we laugh almost from beginning to end, while watching War in Vienna. Yet, on closer inspection, what we are shown is quite disturbing. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT
In The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke’s first feature film, what we observe is the progressive and sudden disintegration of the contemporary bourgeois family, observed and approached in an almost Schnitzlerian style, complete with omnipresent violence that is never really represented before our eyes. A constant theme, this, in Haneke’s rich filmography.