#1163a: HANEKE, Michael: The Seventh Continent (1989)
HANEKE, Michael (Austria)
The Seventh Continent [1989]
Director/Writers
The Seventh Continent [1989]
Spine #1163a
Blu-ray
The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family (Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, and Leni Tanzer) begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke’s chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Inspired by a true story, the director’s first theatrical feature finds him fully in command of his style, observing with rigorous, clinical detachment the spiritual emptiness at the heart of consumer culture—and the horror that lurks beneath its placid surfaces. The Seventh Continent builds to an annihilating encounter with the televisual void that powerfully synthesizes Haneke’s ideas about the link between violence and our culture of manufactured emotion.
108 minutes
Color
Monaural
in German
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2022
Color
Monaural
in German
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2022
Michael Haneke was 47 when he wrote and directed The Seventh Continent.
Other Haneke films in the Collection:
#1163b: Benny's Video (1992)
#1163c: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
#975: Funny Games (1997)
#780: Code Unknown (2000)
#894: The Piano Teacher (2001)
Other Haneke films in the Collection:
#1163b: Benny's Video (1992)
#1163c: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
#975: Funny Games (1997)
#780: Code Unknown (2000)
#894: The Piano Teacher (2001)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by novelist John Wray.
Commentary
None.
Interview
With film historian Alexander Horwath.
Interviews
From 2005 with Haneke.
Documentary
About Haneke’s career featuring interviews with Haneke and actors Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by novelist John Wray.
Commentary
None.
Interview
With film historian Alexander Horwath.
Interviews
From 2005 with Haneke.
Documentary
About Haneke’s career featuring interviews with Haneke and actors Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Trailers
Extras Rating (0-40):
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