THE WHITE RIBBON
In The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke is more insightful than ever in his exploration of disturbing dynamics within everyday life. Violence is commonplace. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Film director: Michael Haneke
THE PIANO TEACHER
The Piano Teacher is a sometimes cruel, painful and disturbing film, which, in depicting the drama of a woman with whom none of us (almost never) feel empathy, shows above all a great understanding of the human soul. At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
WHO WAS EDGAR ALLAN?
Who was Edgar Allan? is a sophisticated detective story with a noir character in which a Venice that is often quite different from how we are used to imagining it acts as the perfect co-star. Michael Haneke, for his part, has succeeded perfectly in staging an intriguing yet twisted and highly controversial story.
FUNNY GAMES U.S.
In Funny Games U.S., Michael Haneke showed us above all how certain dynamics, even after several years, have never changed. Upper-class society, but also gratuitous violence and, above all, the power of staging are faithfully re-proposed from what had already been staged, ten years earlier, in Funny Games.
FUNNY GAMES
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) is not a simple attack on the upper-class world. In Funny Games, in fact, the social discourse is present, but is somehow marginalised. What is carried out here, in fact, is first and foremost a sophisticated metalinguistic experiment, in which we witness a careful reflection on the staging of violence and on the power of cinema to forge reality at will, in order to awaken the most disparate emotions in the viewer.
HIDDEN
Everyone has something to hide. Michael Haneke knows this well. And he also knows that certain secrets and faults from the past can also have a strong, very strong impact on the present. In Hidden, therefore, the protagonist’s past returns in the most devious way.
MICHAEL HANEKE – THE GLACIATION TRILOGY
Violence, coldness, vacuity. These could be the three key words to characterise Michael Haneke’s Glaciation Trilogy. The characters are executioners and victims at the same time. Executioners against other human beings (but also against themselves), victims of a world in which there the human being as such is no longer considered.
BENNY’S VIDEO
In Benny’s Video, reality is what we see, but also what we can manipulate at will. Michael Haneke knows very well where to direct our gaze, simply letting the images speak for themselves and – through monitors that almost act as a ‘filter’ – showing us a distorted world, a sick world.
71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE
It is based on a real-life news story 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. In the film – which is divided into five chapters, each concerning a particular day – everything takes place from October 12 to December 23, 1993. Everything leads up to a single event in which all the characters will be involved in one way or another. But how important is the human being in this feature film by Michael Haneke?
AMOUR
In Michael Haneke’s Amour (Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2012, as well as Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013), there is no place for deep reflections on what human beings have become today. There is no place for the inner torments of talented pianists, adrift families or white-gloved young delinquents breaking into rich homes. Now is the time to focus on one of the most complex feelings, in its purest form.