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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329025120
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 06, 2002
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 50828
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Rating: - Code Unknown: Another example of why I love French cinema.
"A feature film is twenty-four lies per second." -- Michael Haneke.
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition), Cache (Hidden)) is known for his "disturbing" style. "My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator," he says. "They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, ... Read More
Rating:  - Not hollywood, but a work of art
Without giving anything away, let me offer a comparison to the hollywood oscar winner "Crash" because they have similar themes. They both deal with the psychological and communicative dis-functions particular to our modern, multicultural world. Both films also deal with the suffering we create through our behavior toward one another by way of our assumptions, beliefs, and prejudices.
Stylistically, however, these two films have little in common. Whereas "Crash" plays like a pilot for a ... Read More
Rating: - What we have here is a failure to communicate...
Code Unknown was a revelation. The first Michael Haneke film I've seen, I was surprised at how vitriolic the reviews have been here and on the film's IMDB page - arty-fartsy and incomprehensible seems to be the general concensus, yet I found it remarkably vital and accessible for a film revolving around race relations and everyday failures to communicate. Starting with an incident on a French boulevard where misinterpreted actions have consequences for all the wrong people, it proceeds in a series of ... Read More
Rating: - Code Unknown: Reality Unknown
This is a masterpiece of collage. The non-linear sequence of the story can make it hard to watch, but very intreging. It blows open the thoughts that we have in everyday life. That we are the most important, it shows that every life is insignificant to other people. The story deals with racism and mature themes, underlying troubles. It gives us glimpes into the fact that at times we can reach out and change other peoples' lives but in fact we choose to change only our own, as you see in the very ... Read More
Rating: - in space no one can hear you scream
My pick for the best film of the young century. The filmic equivalent of "The Scream." Soul-stretching; heart-breaking. Compare and contrast the construction and content of this film to that of "Pulp Fiction," understand that American film is still 30-40 years behind the films of the French.
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