"- I love you.
- What do you have? Are you drunk or what?
- Yes, why? Not too much."
Michael Haneke is one of the best misanthropic director in the film history. His films about impossible communications, alienating cities, cultural misunderstandings give a very accurate but even more painful x-ray image about our contemporary world. This early one from him is one of the best example of this interest.
"On Dec. 23, 1993, Maximilian B., a 19 years old student killed 3 people in some bank in Vienna. Shortly after that he shot himself in the head."
The movie starts with these sentences. The film shows seventy one (71) sequences (fragments) which culminates to these events. It seems that the linearly told (chronology) fragments have nothing to do with each other (by chance), but the very end of the film the cruel and impassible puzzle is going to be complete. Network narrative from its best from the art cinema (to know what I mean: the same way builds its narrative Emilio Estevez's Bobby, too).
I said Haneke's films are full with frustration and anger. His movies don't give even a weak light of hope. But not their effect. As he told in an interview:
"The people who make entertainment movies are the pessimists. (...) The optimist tries to shake people out of their apathy."
These movies (Code Inconnu, Funny Games (1997!), Benny's Video) don't entertaining at all for sure. But don't give you a chance not to think about them after their screenings...
8/10
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