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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, ...

This is a story that can be told in many countries… In any country, one can find a secret hidden by the “common sense” of that country. — Michael Haneke, “Interview with Michael Haneke” His notion of ...

What's the only thing people love more than a good mystery? Twist: it's an unsolved mystery. Numerous urban legends are built around unsolved mysteries, an entire television show was built around ...