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.
THE PIANO TEACHER (2001):
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered - unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.
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