22 March 2012

Haneke, 70

Michael Haneke turned 70 today.

Amour with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as retired music teachers whose daughter, Isabelle Huppert, lives abroad is rumored to be opening at Cannes and we could only hope so. The film centers around how their lives change after Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) suffers a stroke. Expectations are incredibly high not only because this is the follow-up to The White Ribbon but because of the stellar cast.

One of the greatest scenes (the first 6 minutes) in contemporary cinema (from The Seventh Continent):

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