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 ...

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 ...

With "Happy End," starring Isabelle Huppert, premiering to rave reviews, a look back at the film that defined the two-time Palme d'Or winner. For all of the complexity of Haneke’s films and their ...

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) ...

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 ...

Resting entirely on the shoulders of an impeccable Daniel Auteuil, Hidden deals with guilt on two levels, that of an individual threatened forty years after a childhood jealousy which distance his ...

THE NEW FILM YEAR BEGAN in at least one heartening way: Daniel Auteuil arrived in a new picture. This French actor is so incredibly credible, so unostentatiously fine, that he makes his way from film ...