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Cannes 2012: Amour

Cannes 2012: Amour

Deeply sad and affecting film from Michael Haneke, and winner of the 2012 Palme D’Or

(4 stars)28 May 2012

Unlike The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke’s Palme D’Or winning film from 2009), which stands out for its thematic and narrative complexities, Amour sees the Austrian director take a far simpler approach to filmmaking, with an intimate story of an elderly…

Best of a decade: Film

Best of a decade: Film

2 Dec 2009

Dogville, Che, Fish Tank, The Son, Hidden, 14 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Adaptation

Michael Haneke interview

Michael Haneke interview

4 Nov 2009

‘I’m a control freak,’ says Michael Haneke, the current holder of the Palme d’Or. The Cannes prize-winning director is talking in a London hotel room, wearing a black shirt and trousers, German words spouting through his Santa Claus-esque white hair and…

The White Ribbon (Das Weiße Band

The White Ribbon (Das Weiße Band)

(5 stars)4 Nov 2009

(15) 143min Writer/director Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, Hidden) mainlines the sentiments of fellow Austrians Alfred Adler (the psychiatrist who first formulated ideas of the inferiority complex) and novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach (who…

Cherry Tree Lane and The Killer Inside Me follow recent trend for arthouse violence

Cherry Tree Lane and The Killer Inside Me follow recent trend for arthouse violence

Is extreme violence an easy option for directors with nothing to say?

22 Aug 2010

Paul Andrew Williams’s Cherry Tree Lane is a real-time enactment of the break-in and torture of a middle class suburban couple by vengeful teenagers. At a mere 77 minutes, it’s still a brutal, unpleasant endurance test, and much of its power comes from…

Funny Games US

Funny Games US

(4 stars)27 Mar 2008

HORROR/THRILLER (18) 111min The conventional thinking about shot-for-shot remakes is why bother? We only need cast our minds back to the furore surrounding what many thought to be the sacrilegious and pointless remake of Psycho by Gus Van Sant.

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