Directed by Michael Haneke • 2007 • United States, Austria, France
Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his most controversial film retains the original’s ability to shock and unnerve in its provocative investigation of the link between violence and media spectacle. While on a lake-house vacation, a family gets an unexpected visit from two disturbed young men—plunging them into a nightmarish fight to survive that plays out as both a terrifying thriller and a coolly incisive, meta reflection on the spectator’s relationship to the horror on-screen.
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Funny Games
Directed by Michael Haneke • 1997 • Austria
Starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno FrischMichael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, FUNNY GAMES spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. ...
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Code Unknown
Directed by Michael Haneke • 2000 • France
Starring Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Alexandre HamidiOne of the world’s most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Oscar–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with devastating precisio...
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The Piano Teacher
Directed by Michael Haneke • 2001 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît MagimelIn this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world ...
