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 ...

Caché: Drama. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. Directed by Michael Haneke. (R. 121 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Those willing to blast for it will be able to find some truth in "Caché, ...

In the Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Caché (available on DVD and for download on Amazon Unbox), a Parisian TV talk show host named Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) ...

Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, La Pianiste) made the original Funny Games in 1997 as a response to what the director considered to be the deplorable and irresponsible treatment of violence ...

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 ...

Michael Haneke’s “Cache” (“Hidden”), a thriller with a powerful political subtext, opens with a long, mysterious shot of a Parisian house, taken from across a quiet street. The shot is fixed, ...

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 ...

Everyone has those formative movie moments. Maybe it’s a movie that filled you with awe. Maybe the movie filled you with dread. Or, perhaps, the movie challenged you in a way you weren’t used to. Such ...