This minimalist package is a tell that Criterion believes that the films speak for themselves.
Perhaps the defining performance of Isabelle Huppert’s career is now on vibrant display in this Criterion Blu-ray.
Throughout, director Wolfgang Murnberger can’t manage more than a few surface-level ambiguities.
It plays upon memories of other films that cast aging nonconformists as hip mentors to their doe-eyed queer charges.
Michael Haneke could be cinema’s Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor.
Michael Haneke’s death-of-the-soul-of-Europe saga soldiers on with 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.
Family kills itself, director exploits it for dour ironies. More at 11.
Fans of the director’s austerity will not want to miss the last entry in his feel-bad trilogy. Others may just want to skip straight to the Prozac.
Go For Zucker’s humor is rooted in Jewish comic traditions, but does its broad, equal-opportunity kvetching disguise contempt?
Michael Haneke’s latest torture mechanism is less funny game than daunting debasement ritual.