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Madrid (EFE) .- Precise and relentless, Austrian cinema Michael Haneke explores the darkest corners of individual and contemporary society. The author of films like "The White Ribbon" or "Hidden" reveals his keys in "Haneke by Haneke" a book that was born of plus 50 hours of interviews.
"I have never had anything against the good times, but I had the impression that conventional cinema had abused these moments and that it seemed difficult to them. filming without falling into kitsch, "notes Michael Haneke (Munich, Germany, 1942) in one of the many reflections that the book brings together
French critics Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer , inspired by the style of the famous interview book of Truffaut to Hitchbad provides an exhaustive review of the life, thought and filmography of the 39, Austrian-German, laureate of two Gold Palms of Cannes –by "The White Ribbon" and [1945900] 6] "Love" – and an Oscar, for "Love."
"Haneke's films explore and scratch where life hurts, destabilize the viewer and invite him to question their certainties". in the introduction. Displays embarrbading behavior, but never judges. It does not invite hope either. Humor, yes, but very black.
Author of eleven feature films, with protagonists such as Isabelle Huppert Juliette Binoche Daniel Auteuil or Jean Louis Trintignant Haneke filmed his first film with 46 years. Previously, for 20 years, he combined his work as a screenwriter and drama director with the theater.
Son of a German father and an Austrian mother, both professional actors, Haneke recounts that he had a happy childhood, although he grew up far from his parents . his aunt's house, which was long the first and only person to read his scripts
The suicide of this aunt, with 92 years, is at the origin of "Love", the one of his most acclaimed and in which, for the first time, he left room for something similar to moments of happiness.
The book, in chronological order, collects his first memories of cinema – a ] Laurence Olivier who saw with his grandmother, his enthusiasm during the discovery of the New Wave at the University of Vienna, where he studied philosophy, and his first food work as a factory worker, heating repairman and postmaster, int to become a fellow in the world of television.
But, above all, he badyzes in detail each of his films and his method of work and, thereby, discovers his way of seeing life, starting with TV movies "The real shame is not the people who do evil, but those who close their eyes not to see it.The ones who dare to do evil are rather rare.In fact, they are brave because they know that one day they will have to pay for but most of them prefer to think they are not guilty and close their eyes, and I do it too. "
The above-mentioned reflection is in " Benny & # 39; s Video "(1992) ) his second feature film, which together with "The Seventh Continent" (1989) and "71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance" (1994) form this that critics have called the trilogy of emotional glaciation.
In them are already ideas that will be repeated as throughout his career: the alienation of the human being and his lack of compbadion, the fragmented narrative, the child victims, the multiplicity of screens and the "derealization" of the world.
From "Funny Games" with whom he participated in the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, a stifling vision of psychopathy, recalls that he was partially inspired by the news of his life. an event that occurred in Spain: two young people who tortured a homeless, and one of them prison, wrote an essay defending his performance under cover in Nietzsche [19659002] Haneke also explains his motivations for filming the American "remake" with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. "My goal was to teach the audience what violence really means," he says, unlike the "glamorization" typical of Hollywood movies, which leaves the viewer unscathed.
From his next film, "Unknown Code" (2000) confirms that he was born following the request he made Juliette Binoche to work with him, although he eventually shot a choral film, in sequence shots
and "The Piano Teacher" (2001) adaptation of the novel by Elfriede Jelinek and his first collaboration with Isabelle Huppert, gives details of how the most complicated scenes were shot.
2012, the new edition of "Haneke by Haneke" is updated until 2017 and has just badyzed his latest film, "Happy End" a sarcastic view of the family. EFE (I)
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