It’s Haneke’s 10th archiveable film which is no small feat in 2017
I’m not the first person to mention it but it does play like a bit of a “greatest hits” for Haneke and return to that iciness and darkness he was known for prior to Amour in 2012 (his last film)—it has children desensitized (because of media, bad parenting)- like Benny’s Video, The White Ribbon or Funny Games. It has a sexually aggressive musician (the piano teacher), loathsome white privilege (cache), a man who kills his wife to ease her pain (amour)
Love the formal opening and closing with the girl’s cell phone
No music
No humor—Haneke’s film here could easily be a comedy in the hands of like Bunuel with this god-awful rich real estate empire family being the “bourgeois”
Because it’s Haneke with those icy children I was worried for that baby and I think Haneke even plays off it twice
Social/racist connotation
The 107 minutes seems longer with the long awkward pauses—the scene with daughter and father in the elevator- he’s almost inhumane and Haneke dwells on those pauses
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