Film Masters Michael Haneke (early and 90s)

Haneke

Michael Haneke, German-Austrian born in Bavaria, Munich, is one of the leading exponents of Austrian cinema and one of the best European directors of the 90s and the first decade of the XNUMXst century.

Coming from a family dedicated to the seventh art, his father the director Fritz Haneke and his mother the actress Beatrix von Degenschild, he did not make his first feature film until he was almost fifty years old, after having tried without any success to dedicate herself to acting and for more than ten years working in TV Movies for television, first for the Austrian and later for the West German.

It was in 1989 when he would roll his first film "The Seventh Continent", drama based on real events about a family that decides to get rid of all its material goods and thus change its bourgeois life for a much more spiritual one.

Three years later it would arrive "Benny's Video", his second job. The film tells the story of Benny, a fourteen-year-old boy who is given a video equipment from which he does not detach himself. One day he takes some pictures that inspire him to commit a wild thing. Both in this film, as in his debut, it is already clear how hard his style will be.

Benny's video

With "71 fragments of a chronology of chanceHaneke completes what would be called the trilogy of violence in modern society. inta with which it triumphs at the Sitges Film Festival by winning the awards for best film, best screenplay and Critics Award.

His next job is a short film included in the film «Lumière y company», in which forty directors participate, among whom are Spike Lee, Wim Wenders or David Lynch, who each shoot a 52-second short film with the cinematograph used by the Lumière brothers.

In 1997 he shot "" Funny Games ", an Austrian production of which he would later make a remake in the United States. This film, which chose the Palme d'Or in, ended up winning the FIPRESCI Award in Cannes.

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That same year he also filmed «The Castle (by Franz Kafka), a film that refers the viewer to the existential anguish of contemporary man.

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