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 ...

Michael Haneke’s “Cache” (Hidden) is a psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality that raises universal issues of individual responsibility of the citizens of world powers for ...

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) ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...