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41-659: Michael Haneke ( German: [ˈhaːnəkə] ; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, German, and English and has worked in television and theatre. He also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna . Haneke's first films were his "glaciation" trilogy, consisting of The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny's Video (1992), and 71 Fragments of

82-527: A Chronology of Chance (1994), each of which depict a "coldly bureaucratic society in which genuine human relationships have been supplanted by a deep-seated collective malaise" and explore "the relationship among consumerism, violence, mass media, and contemporary alienation". He went on to win the Cannes Film Festival 's Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) as well as its Palme d'Or twice, for The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012),

123-537: A Leading Role for Emmanuelle Riva ; it won in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . In 2013, Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts. His twelfth and most recent film, Happy End , was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival . Filmacademy Vienna The offered programs (Bachelor/Master's degree) are: There is also a Digital Art - Compositing program (Master only). During

164-469: A commentary on "the European refugee crisis and the pitfalls of privilege ". Wilkinson added, " challenges its audience to pay attention to put together the story, then, is as much an aesthetic statement about how to watch a movie as a political one. We have to observe and see what's in the background. And that's just what the family at the center of the movie doesn't do, and what makes them civilized monsters —

205-483: A film about German history that doesn't drown in self-pity and yet still attracts the public". A few years later he would make the experimental tele-documentary film Nachruf für einen Mörder about a young Austrian who provoked a hideous bloodbath in Vienna. Haneke's feature film debut was 1989's The Seventh Continent , which served to trace out the violent and bold style that would bloom in later years. The film chronicles

246-462: A film critic. He made his debut as a television director in 1974. Haneke started his career directing numerous television projects. He made his debut as a writer and director with the 1974 television movie After Liverpool starring Hildegard Schmahl and Dieter Kirchlechner . The project originally started as a radio play. He then directed two more television films, Three Paths to the Lake (1976), about

287-460: A film organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Seventh Continent (1989 film) The Seventh Continent (German: Der siebente Kontinent ) is a 1989 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke . It is Haneke's debut feature film. The film chronicles three years in the life of an Austrian family, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optometrist ; and their young daughter, Eva. They lead

328-689: A proclivity they pass on through generations." Haneke says that films should offer viewers more space for imagination and self-reflection. Films that have too much detail and moral clarity, Haneke says, are used for mindless consumption by their viewers. Haneke teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna . One of his students there was director Katharina Mückstein . Haneke is known for directing films which are often unsentimental and uses disturbing imagery to explore social critiques on issues such as class , race , gender , and violence . The Museum of Modern Art showcased his films in 2007 adding that they feature themes "of alienation and social collapse;

369-541: A seemingly routine urban middle-class life, but are actually planning something sinister. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee. The film is divided into three parts. The first two, 1987 and 1988, each depict a day in the family's life, showing their daily activities in detail. It conveys their discomfort with

410-436: A war photo journalist who faces a moral crisis when she is forced to examine the implications of her work, and another telefilm Sperrmüll (1976). In 1979 he directed two episodes of Lemminge followed by Variation – oder Daß es Utopien gibt, weiß ich selber! (1983). In 1986 he directed Fraulein: A German Melodrama which was described as Haneke's answer to Fassbinder 's The Marriage of Maria Braun . Haneke wanted to make

451-414: Is a reference to Australia, the continent mentioned in the film as the family's destination. Its image is visualized as an isolated beach and desert, with a mountain range on the left border and pool of water with mysterious waves (which are clearly physically impossible) in between. Australia is symbolised as the ideal place to escape to for the doomed Austrian family. It appears in the first two parts and as

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492-501: Is a seriously scandalous work, beautifully made, and it deserves a sizable audience that might argue over it, appreciate it—even hate it." A few years later he directed the dystopian drama Time of the Wolf (2003) starring Huppert. The film revolves around a family trying to find their way after a global cataclysm. The film received positive reviews with Scott Foundas of Variety Magazine writing, "Haneke demonstrates profound insight into

533-692: The Palme d'Or , and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film . In 2012, his film Amour premiered and competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival . The film would go on to win the Palme d'Or , making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years; this made him the seventh director to have won it twice and the only Austrian director to have accomplished this. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Original Screenplay , and Best Actress in

574-657: The 2000 Cannes Film Festival . The New York Times praised Haneke "as a skillful, minutely observant filmmaker who trusts his audience to be able to put two and two together" but adds "Unfortunately, he's often too cryptic, which leaves viewers still trying to make connections when they should already be reacting to the moral lessons implied by them." Haneke has directed a number of stage productions in German, which include works by Strindberg , Goethe , and Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. Haneke achieved great success with

615-614: The 2005 Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews. The film involves themes of collective guilt , collective memory and colonialism . He incorporated stories of the Paris massacre of 1961 into the film. Haneke won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director for the film. It was also included in the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century . In 2006 he gave his debut as an opera director, staging Mozart's Don Giovanni for

656-808: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival and won his first Palme d'Or . It later won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and earned two Academy Award nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Cinematography losing to The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) from Argentina and Avatar (2009). Critic Roger Ebert described the film as "visual[ly] masterful" adding, "His films are like parables, teaching that bad things sometimes happen simply because they...happen. The universe laughs at man's laws and does what it will." In 2012, Haneke directed Amour starring Jean-Louis Trintignant , Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The film revolves around an elderly couple aging together. The film premiered at

697-480: The 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received the Palme d'Or , Haneke's second. Ella Tayor of NPR praised the film describing it as "Touching and tragic" adding "Haneke implicates us in the full range of human capacity". The film also earned the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Haneke earning Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay , the later nominations being

738-710: The FIPRESCI Award at the European Film Awards . The film showed at the New York Film Festival where Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised the performances and Haneke writing, "The film makes strong, if heavy-handed, points about the confusing effects of television violence". His third film in the trilogy is entitled, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994), Manohla Dargis 's The New York Times called it an "An icy-cool study of violence both mediated and horribly real", adding "For Mr. Haneke,

779-549: The Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He later attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy , psychology and drama . Not a committed student, he would spend most of his time attending local movie theatres. After leaving university, he began working odd jobs, before working as an editor and dramaturge at the southwestern German television station Südwestfunk from 1967 to 1970, a time during which he also worked as

820-657: The Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier when the theater's general manager was Gerard Mortier . With his next film The White Ribbon (2009) Haneke chose to shoot in black-and-white and in Germany. The film is set in 1913 and deals with strange incidents in a small town in Northern Germany , depicting an authoritarian , fascist -like atmosphere, where children are subjected to rigid rules and suffer harsh punishments, and where strange deaths occur. The film premiered at

861-504: The Prince of Asturias Award for the arts. In 2017, for his twelfth film, Happy End Haneke reunited with Trintignant and Huppert. The film also starred Mathieu Kassovitz and Toby Jones . The film centers around a bourgeois French family dealing with a series of setbacks and crises. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival . The film received respectable reviews. Alissa Wilkinson of Vox described it as

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902-404: The exploitation and consumption of violence; the bourgeois family as the incubator of fascistic impulse; individual responsibility and collective guilt ; and the ethics of the photographic image ". He is also known for his use of the long take rather than relying on quick edits or fast paced editing. Haneke prefers to let his scenes unfold slowly, allowing the audience to fully experience

943-653: The Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1989. He later won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano Teacher and the Best Director Award for Caché at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival . He subsequently directed the 2007 remake of his controversial 1997 film Funny Games . At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , his film The White Ribbon won

984-483: The bank clerk they are emigrating to Australia, selling their car, and buying a large variety of cutting tools. He then says it was a very hard decision whether or not to take their daughter Eva with them, but they decided to do so after she said she was not afraid of death. The family eats a luxurious meal and then systematically destroys every possession in the house, but in an automatic and passionless manner, with barely any speaking (as are almost all of their actions in

1025-514: The composer Alexander Steinbrecher  [ de ] , had later married the mother of actor Christoph Waltz . Haneke was raised in the city of Wiener Neustadt , Austria. Haneke showed a strong interest in literature and music, but as an adolescent developed a "downright contempt for any form of school". During this period of his life, he has later described himself as a "rebel". He had ambitions of becoming an actor in his youth, later abandoning these plans after failing an entrance examination at

1066-428: The critically acclaimed French film The Piano Teacher (2001). The film starred Isabelle Huppert as a sexually repressed piano teacher who soon becomes involved with a younger man. The film tackles subjects such as masochism , rape , incest , sexual repression , sexual violence , and the relationships between men and women. It premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival where it received rapturous reviews. It won

1107-405: The essence of human behavior when all humility is pared away, raw panic and despair are the order of the day, and man becomes more like wolf than man." In 2005 Haneke reunited with Juliette Binoche in the psychological thriller Caché after she expressed interest in working with him. Haneke frequently worked with real-life couple Ulrich Mühe and Susanne Lothar – thrice each. The film opened

1148-412: The feature film Funny Games (1997). The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games in their vacation home. The film premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival . David Rooney of Variety wrote about his continuation of the examination of violence writing, "Haneke is clearly more interested in the implications of violence than the acts themselves, and

1189-412: The film). They rip up all of their money and flush it down the toilet. The only emotion shown is when Georg shatters their large fish tank, and his daughter screams and cries hysterically. Finally, they commit suicide by overdosing on pills dissolved in water, first Eva, then Anna, and finally Georg, who vomits up the liquid and must resort to injecting himself. Just before he dies, Georg methodically writes

1230-585: The first of his career. In 2012, he was to direct Così fan tutte for the New York City Opera . This production had originally been commissioned by Jürgen Flimm for the Salzburg Festival 2009, but Haneke had to resign due to an illness preventing him from preparing the work. Haneke realized this production at Madrid's Teatro Real in 2013. In 2013, he was the subject of the documentary film Michael H – Profession: Director . That year, Haneke won

1271-575: The first two years of study, students take classes in all programs, before they specialize in the field of study they applied for. The application process takes place once a year: After completing given assignments, some of the applicants will be invited for one week of tests and interviews. The Filmacademy Vienna admits 15 to 20 new students per year. The current faculty consists of internationally acclaimed filmmakers: 48°11′48″N 16°22′56″E  /  48.19667°N 16.38222°E  / 48.19667; 16.38222 This article related to

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1312-440: The last image in a series of flashbacks shown before the death of Georg. Michael Haneke said that the film is based on a news article he read about a family who committed suicide in this manner; police discovered that their money was flushed because bits of currency were found in the plumbing. Haneke claims to have correctly predicted to the producer that audiences would be upset with that scene, and remarked that in today's society

1353-447: The last years of an Austrian family played by Birgit Doll and Dieter Berner. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as a "masterpiece". Despite being shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film it wasn't nominated. Three years later he directed the controversial psychological horror film Benny's Video (1992). The film premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews. It later won

1394-430: The latter of which received five Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . He also directed Funny Games (1997) and its 2007 remake , Code Unknown (2000), Time of the Wolf (2003), Caché (2005), and Happy End (2017). Haneke is the son of German actor and director Fritz Haneke and Austrian actress Beatrix von Degenschild  [ de ] . His stepfather,

1435-405: The names, date, and time of death of all three family members on the wall, providing a question mark for his own time of death. An envelope addressed to Georg's parents is taped to the door. At the end of the film, text says that, despite the suicide note, Georg's parents thought it may have been a homicide and a police investigation was conducted. No evidence of murder was found. The film's title

1476-577: The point seems less that evil is commonplace than that we don't engage with it as thinking, actively moral beings. We slurp our soup while Sarajevo burns on the boob tube." In 1997 he directed the television film The Castle (1997). The project is based of the Franz Kafka 's novel of the same name . The film starred Ulrich Mühe and Susanne Lothar . It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival . Also that year he directed

1517-584: The prestigious Grand Prize at the festival and also won its stars, Benoît Magimel and Huppert the Best Actor and Actress awards. David Denby of The New Yorker wrote, "Haneke avoids the sensationalism of movie shockers, even high-class shockers like Hitchcock 's Psycho and Polanski 's Repulsion . There are no expressionist moments in The Piano Teacher —no scenes of longing, no soft-focus dreams or cinematic dreck". Denby concluded, "[the film]

1558-408: The psychological wallop they pack is strengthened by having most of the physical and emotional carnage played off-camera". He directed the French film Code Unknown (2000) starring Juliette Binoche . The film revolves around separates storylines which weave and intersect with each other. The film is inspired by the life of the French novelist and war reporter Olivier Weber . The film screened at

1599-565: The sterile routines of modern society. Toward the beginning of each part, there is a voice over of the wife reading a letter to the husband's parents informing them of his success at work. Many of the activities in the two parts are the same. The third part, 1989, begins with the family departing from the grandparents' home after a visit. The husband then narrates a letter, written the next day, informing them that he and his wife have resigned from their jobs and decided "to leave". It plays over clips of them quitting, closing their bank account, telling

1640-501: The tension and emotion of each moment. This creates a sense of intimacy for the audience to draw them into a scene. He also uses static shots, ambiguous endings, meta-narratives, and silence. Haneke also has collaborated with Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche on numerous films. In 2012, Haneke participated in the Sight & Sound poll and submitted these films as his favorite. In June 2024, Haneke's list of all-time favorite films

1681-520: Was published on LaCinetek . He lists more than 100 films, quoting several works by directors Ingmar Bergman ( Persona , Through a Glass Darkly , Winter Light , Scenes from a Marriage , The Silence ) and Abbas Kiarostami ( Where Is the Friend's House? , Through the Olive Trees , And Life Goes On , Taste of Cherry , The Wind Will Carry Us ). His directorial debut , The Seventh Continent , won

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