The violence, in short, remains unseen, but that makes it no easier to bear; what lurks and wails behind a wall is, for Haneke, the most reliable wellspring of dread.

A procession of long virtuoso takes that typically begin and end in the middle of actions or sentences, constituting not only an interactive jigsaw puzzle but a thrilling narrative experiment.

A searing, structurally ingenious look at racial tension on the streets of Paris.

While its reputation has been overshadowed by later works from the filmmaker, it remains a provocative deconstruction of modern anhedonia.