TSPDT - Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke

See Also

Catherine Breillat

Robert Bresson

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Nagisa Oshima

François Ozon

Director / Screenwriter

1942 -

Born March 23, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Key Production Countries: Austria, Germany, France

Key Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Crime Drama, Family Drama

Key Collaborators: Veit Heiduschka (Producer), Christopher Kanter (Production Designer), Christian Berger (Cinematographer), Margaret Menegoz (Producer), Udo Samel (Leading Character Player), Susanne Lothar (Leading Character Player), Maurice Benichou (Leading Character Player), Jurgen Jurges (Cinematographer), Nadine Muse (Editor), Marie Homolkova (Editor)

Highly Recommended: Caché (2005)

Recommended: The Seventh Continent (1989), Funny Games (1997), The White Ribbon (2009)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Strictly Film School ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Central Europe Review Article ] [ Kinoeye Interview ] [ Bright Lights Film Journal Interview (2005 ] [ Sight & Sound Article (2005) ] [ Time Out Interview (2007) ] [ Guardian Article (2008) ] [ Film Comment Interview (2009) ] [ A.V. Club Interview (2009) ]

Books: [ Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image ] [ A Companion to Michael Haneke ] [ On Michael Haneke (Contemporary Film and Television Series) ] [ Funny Frames: Studying the Films of Michael Haneke ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Code Unknown (2000), The Piano Teacher (2001), Caché (2005), The White Ribbon (2009)


	"Most of Michael Haneke's films shock, not so much with their violence, but with the cold and ambivalent depiction of that violence. Haneke, one of Austria's most celebrated directors (although he works in France), intends his films to be critiques of European society and of American cinema." - Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)

	"Influenced by Kafka and Bresson, Haneke's austere, modernist style is elliptical and fragmentary in both narrative structure and visual framing: scenes and compositions show only what is essential to meaning." - Geoff Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)

	"Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience." - Michael Haneke

	"Cheerfully wishing his audience a "disturbing evening" at a London retrospective of his films, director Michael Haneke insists that he is an optimist at heart, despite all of the relentlessly bleak carnage and deeply disturbing imagery so vividly painted and seared into the mind of anyone who has had the uncomfortable experience of viewing his work." - Jason Buchanan (All-Movie Guide)