The major flaw was always Haneke’s inability to sustain shock beyond the abstracted confines of his protagonists; filmmaker and art-house audience played a zero sum game, equal parts sadomasochistic ...

A bourgeois couple, Georges and Anne Laurent (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) receive mysterious videotapes, accompanied by sinister but childlike sketches, that show they are being spied on.

The goal of psychoanalysis, argues Adam Phillips, is to become boring to yourself. It is “the therapy that frees people to lose interest in themselves; there’s nothing more self-preoccupying than a ...

New York-based Plum Pictures has optioned English-language remake rights to the Michael Haneke-directed French thriller “Cache.” The film follows a popular TV personality and his wife, who find videos ...

Among contemporary European filmmakers, one of the great current critics’ darlings is Michael Haneke. He’s a German-born director who began his career in Austria and now works mostly in France, and ...

Michael Haneke’s films have been honored multiple times at the Cannes Film Festival over the past decade and this year is no exception. The Austrian filmmaker, who won the Grand Jury Prize for The ...