Michael Haneke

Reviews

Funny Games

Michael Haneke's scene for scene remake of his own 1997 film, Funny Games, appears to be premised on displeasure. [14 March 2008]

Caché (Hidden) (2005)

Michael Haneke's movies are never easy. Instead, they set out complex, multi-layered problems, encountered by ordinary-seeming characters, sometimes worked out but more usually left unresolved. [28 June 2006]

Caché (2005)

Caché is Michael Haneke's latest unsettling look at the shaky foundations of bourgeois security. [6 January 2006]

Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) (2002)

In Michael Haneke's version of the end of the world, things are different. [7 February 2005]

Time of the Wolf (2003)

In Time of the Wolf, a family vacationing in the French countryside is split apart by shocking violence and faced with unspeakable horrors. [15 July 2004]

The Piano Teacher (2001)

Haneke's films challenge not only media violence, but also unsuccessful satires of media violence, like Oliver Stone's indulgent, bloodily hedonistic 'Natural Born Killers'. [4 April 2002]