"The Seventh Continent:" if there is a director alive making creepier films,

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I haven't seen his work. Austria's Michael Haneke ("Funny Games") shows in his first dramatic effort a real skill in searching out the most frightening of situations and then exploiting them, unmercifully.
A rather boring couple with a typical young daughter go about their quotidian, monotonous routines until one day hardly different from all the others an unimaginable tragedy occurs.
This film is highly disturbing, though it has no gore or torture or any of those blood-soaked scenes which today are all too common. Haneke creates fear and dread in the viewer long before anything shocking transpires. When finally it does, the horror is magnified by the ordinariness surrounding it.
Be warned that Haneke's style is highly idiosyncratic with scenes ending in abrupt cuts to black. He also wastes no time in attempting to explain or having his characters provide reasons for their behavior.
The film is based on a true story, which makes it all the more terrible.

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Topic - "The Seventh Continent:" if there is a director alive making creepier films, - tinear 18:52:55 12/02/08 (10)

Also see.... - afilado 20:26:28 12/03/08 (9)

"I Stand Alone" seemed to me to be more about - tinear 08:09:46 12/04/08 (6)

I take Noe's work seriously.... - afilado 09:39:40 12/04/08 (5)

I can appreciate your admiration of his work, - tinear 12:01:25 12/04/08 (4)

I didn't say I admired his work... - afilado 14:53:57 12/04/08 (3)

I think you hit upon it. Haneke appears to try, in his editing, - tinear 15:39:51 12/04/08 (2)

Real people do real violence ...... - afilado 17:31:07 12/04/08 (1)

If Hirst were Noe he'd throw people into the live shark's aquarium and THEN - tinear 22:41:02 12/04/08 (0)

I shudder to remember I Stand Alone - PhilJ 05:56:37 12/04/08 (1)

Yes, Phil...... - afilado 08:42:06 12/04/08 (0)

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