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There have been vigorous debates about the condition and prospects of auteur cinema in France over the last decade, debates that seem mostly to have gone unreported in anglophone criticism of francophone cinema. But these have been paralleled by a revival of international debate about the status of the auteur: in their extended chapter on auteur cinema added to the second edition of Cook's
Since its release in 1997 critics have interpreted Michael Haneke’s Funny Games in terms of European counter-cinema’s deconstruction of Hollywood genre film. Such accounts have drawn on a range of provocative statements by the Austrian director, who has gone on record to state that his intention in making the film was to ‘rape the viewer into independence’ and thus
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain. (Sontag 2003 : 7) In a recent article for the American journal Film Comment, Richard Combs argues that Michael Haneke is currently the paradigmatic filmmaker of ‘a new European art cinema’, whose elusive and shifting terrain
that you like me. LEDGARD Have I said that? VICENTE/VERA [Looking towards the security camera] I know you look at me. Since you brought me here we practically live in the same room. Vicente/Vera plays the seductress, becoming a femme fatale as the action in the 2012 present develops. Ledgard is characterised as being in control of Vicente/Vera’s body but not of his own feelings, which Vicente/Vera is probing as Ledgard retreats in haste. For this reason, the ‘splashes of red which have been noticed by reviewers’, including a ‘nod to Michael Haneke’s
with stringent immigration policies, riots and discontent in the banlieus , and President Sarkozy’s ultra-conservative and aggressively defensive notion of national identity, Genet’s plays, like Michael Haneke’s astonishing 2005 film Caché , disclose the presence of an alternative history. They remind us that France is a haunted country, whose present discontents can be traced back to its refusal to deal with events in the 1950s and 1960s. Recalling Rustom Bharucha’s argument (see pp. 2–3 in this book), Genet’s late theatre forces us to take a stance; it shocks us
television companies, such as France 2 Cinéma. Where the Belgian Dardenne brothers (to whom I shall refer as one director, given the near-interchangeability of the directing and producing roles of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on their four features to date) and Michael Haneke are concerned, however, the picture is more complex, and probably more indicative of current trends in francophone cinema. All four of the Dardenne brothers
sense that it is immanent, present and alive. Yet some recent French films have already acknowledged the crucial existential fact that we are Williams, Space and being in contemporary French cinema.indd 289 11/01/2013 15:18:48 290 Space and being in contemporary French cinema living through a period of seismic environmental change, and have foregrounded the local effects of an emerging global crisis. Michael Haneke’s Le Temps du loup/The Time of the Wolf (2003), for instance, portrays a world of post-apocalyptic social breakdown following an unspecified
interesting case in the identification of a film’s nationality is Michael Haneke’s 2012 Cannes Palme d’or winner, Amour. Amour MUP_King_Printer.indd 11 22/06/2017 11:03 12 Decentring France is considered to be a French film (indeed its cast, language, majority funding and setting are French), although the filmmaker, Michael Haneke, is not. This is not particularly remarkable in itself, as many directors of French films, from Krzysztof Kieslowski (La Double Vie de Véronique 1991) to Amos Gitaï (Désengagement 2007, Free Zone 2005), are not of French origin. However, the
‘there’ and ‘then’, never ‘here’ and ‘now’, and van Elferen shows how this not belonging, this nostalgia and evasive subjectivity which characterise the subculture, are expressed in the music of Sol Invictus and Sopor Æternus, with musical inversion turning globalised media into sites of gothic unlocation. Barry Murnane next looks at Michael Haneke’s
, become conscious of and regain their sexual identity. It’s because I myself had so much trouble standing the sight of the female sex organ that I made Anatomy of Hell. It was like an exorcism’. conclusion 151 ‘the cinema of abjection’ or ‘the new French extremity’, these directors include many whose films have been strongly influenced by Breillat’s work and particularly by Romance: Patrice Chéreau (Intimacy, 2001), Michael Haneke (La Pianiste, 2001), Bertrand Bonello (Le Pornographe, 2001), Gaspar Noé (Irréversible, 2002), Christophe Honoré (Ma mère, 2004), and Jean