A two-time winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or, director Michael Haneke has also had a string of breakout hits with Hidden in 2005, The White Ribbon in 2009 and Amour in 2012.
Predicting compassion fatigue and a numbing contemporary news cycles with eerie prescience, Haneke stares where others fear to glance. In his worlds, we are all complicit. Holding us accountable, albeit with empathy and often dark humour, these films challenge us to see through societal malaise and interrogate our place in the world. If you hold their gaze long enough, you might see that place more clearly.
Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective brings his films back to the big screen, allowing audiences to explore the auteur's work, filmmaking techniques and his lasting legacy on the filmmakers of today.
Riverside studios will be joining Curzon Films' new celebration of this auteur with screenings of his acclaimed THE PIANO TEACHER and CACHE/HIDDEN, both playing from new digital prints.
HIDDEN (2005):
Michael Haneke was awarded the Best Director prize at Cannes for his stunning exploration of a past that haunts the present.
This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke (Happy End, The White Ribbon) - one of cinema’s most daring, original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a TV presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his family.
To the mounting consternation of Georges and his wife (Juliette Binoche), the footage on the tapes – which arrive wrapped in drawings of disturbingly violent images – becomes increasingly personal, and sinister anonymous phone calls are made. Convinced he knows the identity of the person responsible, Georges embarks on a rash and impulsive course of action that throws up some unpleasant facts about his past and leads to shockingly unexpected consequences.
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