Why Are Michael Haneke Films So Unsettling?

[@SpikimaMovies]

Enjoy extended 30 day FREE trial of MUBI at mubi.com/spikimamovies Sad that I couldn't talk about every single one of his films, especially the earlier ones. What's YOUR favourite Haneke film?

[@DebangshuChakrabarti_]

Caché

[@renatocfrancisco]

YAY, I am using Mubi, thanks Spikima.

[@cats_shall_rise8842]

White Ribbon. Thanks for this! he really is a genius.

[@H.KITAN0]

the seventh continent, why haven't you talked about it?

[@XanderShiller]

@@H.KITAN0 Obviously because he's not a geographer so.. =P I'll probably watch it, thanks for the suggestion. What do you like about it?

[@harveydean7952]

Amour for me is possibly the most terrifying film I've ever seen. Most of us can watch a film where a serial killer stalks his victims or a scary monster pounces out of the shadows and ultimately feel quite safe knowing its unlikely we'll suffer a similar fate. There's no such comfort with Amour. It grabs you by the collar, shakes you vigorously and lets you know in no uncertain terms, you will get old, your body will fail you, your mind will decay and to all intents and purposes your eventual passing will be inconsequential to the world around you. Its a masterful piece of film-making, albeit one that will bum you out forever.

[@ianbeach23]

But what is the point? To my mind, it’s pretentious, pessimistic drivel that portrays itself as being a profound masterpiece for telling us obvious shit that we already know, in a story that is infinitely more boring than it is necessarily depressing. Synecdoche New York does the same thing but is so, so much more creative and entertaining in how it communicates it’s ideas to you than Amour is. Pointing out harsh facts of life is not intellectual or profound. It’s just bleak for the sake of bleak. Haneke has nothing to actually say about life, his movies are no higher art than those standard blockbuster horror movies you mentioned. It’s just scaring people for the sake of it, but he has nothing actually worth saying in regards to the effect his movies should have on you. You learn nothing from them, other than that life is shit I suppose. And I like filmmakers who deal in bleak or even pessimistic subject matter. I already mentioned Kaufman. And Ingmar Bergman is my favorite director. But those are also real artists with a lot to say about the world. Haneke has never given me anything in terms of actual texture. His movies are empty, nothing more than existential horror films designed to frighten you, rather than present you with any actual real ideas on the world at large. Nothing profound to say. A complete waste of time to my mind. If you like his movies more power to you, but I cannot stand them.

[@chocolaterottenheresy5229]

@@ianbeach23 When I first saw your comment, I was inclined to agree, because in my opinion there are some directors that seem self centered in their misery and only want to drag others down/shock them with their work, and ultimately have no artistic value. After watching this movie in particular, I think that it did have a lot to say. I don't really have much experience with aging or the elderly and what they go through, and to me it was really interesting to actually be able to see into the life of someone else like this. I think it's important to show the stories of people who suffer, rather than keep it in the shadows. Everyone, including the main character herself, struggled to grasp the reality of this situation that seemed to have completely blindsided them. Not only does it depict this suffering that people would rather not think about, but also how people who aren't suffering don't exactly help the situation. It's making me reflect on how we treat the elderly, the sick and disabled. How I am treated as a disabled person and how I act within my own relationships. It's things that I personally struggle to think about and watching this film really helped me out in that, even though it's "obvious shit we already know", we really dont see the full reality of it, and in thinking we already know everything there is to know about someone else's struggles, that might even become our own one day, we never grow. I also think that we shouldnt discourage or criticize art simply for not being "creative" enough as something like Synecdoche is really not consumable to a general audience(although i do like the film myself.)

[@ianbeach23]

@@chocolaterottenheresy5229 i can respect your view point, even though I still don’t necessarily agree. Maybe I’ll have to watch it again some day but I saw the movie as more of a commentary on love than aging, hence the name. I interpreted it as Haneke essentially saying “whoever you love you will eventually lose and that’s just the reality of it” basically saying that love is pointless in the process. I also still find his style to be more boring than it is disturbing. As far as comparing it to Synecdoche New York. I don’t hold every movie up to the same standard as a movie like that. Why I compared the two however is because Amour won the Palme d’or and it’s fans seem to usually think of it as a masterpiece. So it wasn’t me comparing it to the standard of Synecdoche New York alone, more that if we’re gonna call this movie a masterpiece, let’s compare it to another masterpiece and look at just how much better it is than this But like I said, I respect your viewpoint, even though I don’t think I’ll ever be a particular fan of Michael Haneke. Im glad you can get something out of his movies.

[@chocolaterottenheresy5229]

@@ianbeach23 In my opinion, I dont think that it was saying that love is pointless at all, and I'm not sure how you would come to that conclusion just because of the loss and sadness of the plot. Would you say that if this was a real story rather than a movie, that everyone's love was pointless? I'm not sure I get this point

[@ianbeach23]

@@chocolaterottenheresy5229 hey sorry i never saw this response. I saw it as essentially nihilism. Haneke was saying we all get old and eventually die and so there’s no point to anything. And using that nihilism as a commentary on Love specifically. Cinema tends to portray love in an overly glossy and false light, showing it to be something much more perfect than it actually is. So I saw Haneke as essentially trying to twist the common perspective film has on love by showing us the “more accurate” I say with very large quotation marks around it, and honest perspective of what love is. Similarly to how in Funny Games he twists the horror genre and shows us that violence in reality is actually much more disturbing and horrifying then entertainment tries to make it out to be, he was twisting the romance genre to show us the horror of how it is in reality. Sorry if I didn’t explain this very well by the way, it’s 4 a.m. for me. But Haneke has always been interested in establishing the differences between art and reality through his movies, so Amour seemed to be another example of that for me

[@simonem5890]

the way you ended the video brought such a big smile to my face, absolutely perfect imperfection

[@jickay]

Yep I chuckled. Was thinking did the bastard just do that? Subscribed!

[@enterthevoidIi]

at first i was wth but then i was aahhhh

[@danig.6454]

X4! I was like, crap, who's calling? No call... Did my headphones die? *sees red bar moving* oooooh you arse!

[@AllRoundGameress]

Just coming to say I thought another ad was playing and then the light bulb went off; it was such a beautiful ode to the director and creative

[@MorningOnMars]

I saw The Piano Teacher recently and I can simultaneously say "It was really good" and "I hated it".

[@N0va]

such an intense story, really feel for the character and her performance was wild

[@MorningOnMars]

@@N0va she was incredible.

[@N0va]

@@MorningOnMars i think the novel it is based on won the pulitzer prize too, true genius

[@Eamonshort1]

Thats how I feel about alot of Gasper Noe

[@galsexe]

@@Eamonshort1 Irreversible is truly a unsettling masterpiece.

[@Labroidas]

He was my sister's professor in film school. Nice to learn more about him, thank you for the video!

[@samwilson964]

Woah that's so cool!!

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Was just thinking the other day how amazing it'd be to take a class from him. She's truly lucky for that opportunity!

[@nabukuma]

Holy shit he did the piano teacher, I know almost no one who’s seen that film except me. It was so awkward to watch, especially the scenes at her home. Didn’t realise the same guy did funny games.

[@SoWhosGae]

Well I've seen it too so you found another one lol. I had read the book first.

[@marianatheschizoid5912]

Ikr! the acting is amazing, even in some of the most uncomfortable sex scenes ever. I still gotta read the book someday (couldn’t find it in English and my German is frankly terrible) and watch more of Haneke’s films.

[@chris.hartliss]

@@marianatheschizoid5912 My German literally just melted away after my teens lol

[@no_peace]

It's the only one of these I've seen or heard of lol

[@johnfromdownunder.4339]

I'm in Sydney Australia and I saw the piano teacher when it came out and I love French films, my favourite films are not American they are like the taste of this man's films he talks about. That other film he made were I can't remember his name because I stoped watching films like ten years ago but he's a very great actor in France, and he gets videos left on his doorstep, it's kind of like David Lynchs lost highway I believe,Robert blake says he's in his room now,.and this other hanke film a arab of I assume Algeria he meets this man at his flat and he cuts his own throat and it's rather full on and I can't help now but think that it is more about the French war in Algeria and the how in the film the French man is being observed but buy what or whome we don't know, he must have done something in the past or perhaps it's random, but I do remember the end and it's his son doing something. I'm looking now at a DVD called Paris with Roman duress there is s film I like with Roman duress were he and his father another great french actor they are like landlords and kind of like gansters, and his mother is omg IV lost all my memory, I used to know her name so well because she speaks perfect English and can speak pretty perfect french as well, there is two women actresses that have the same skill, the beat that my heart skipped, .I miss films now, I love original films. I ALLways wanted to go to France but I guess I never will. Funny games was so good. I really liked the Irish film Calgary.

[@ReactionShot]

I find that as I've grown older, my tolerance or even willingness to sit through a film that does little more than disturb me, has diminished greatly...almost completely. Life is hard and disturbing enough.

[@fredley33]

I heard a quote once, don't remember where, but it was "art is meant to make the disturbed comfortable and the comfortable disturbed"

[@ReactionShot]

@@fredley33 That's a quote from Cesar Cruz. But it's often credited as being a Banksy quote. (which it's not).

[@simonyricools]

I love going to the cinema to see those kinds of movies, but I rarely watch them at home.

[@enricovankeeken1624]

*Í find listening to endless speeches of so called important people telling you its time to do something about gun control in america tiresome_*

[@leebritnell8668]

I'm with you there.I try to avoid the extreme and unpleasant,spending much time watching movies from my youth(60s/70s).Hate 'torture porn',etc.

[@matthewbob6966]

There’s such a precision to Haneke’s films, Caché is one of the most masterfully executed films I’ve ever seen. His work feels so perfect, like every single frame is a piece of a puzzle.

[@proy2448]

I am still trying to figure out the ending. Do you have any answers? I'd love to hear opinions

[@aceboog4546]

The Seventh Continent is his best, IMO.

[@eliotsausage]

@@proy2448 I’d suggest reading up on the french-algerian war, it helped me gather my thoughts quite a bit upon rewatching it

[@howard5992]

@@proy2448 the ending is intentionally open-ended. I think the closing message is something like "the damage people inflict on others has a ripple effect". It also echoes the theme of watching from a distance. I'm not sure if that's the type of feedback you were looking for but that's what I think of when I recall the conclusion.

[@rutherfrogp.wilmington4907]

@@proy2448i pibe the theory that the fourth wall is being broken and the tapes are being sent by Haneke himself

[@justanothermortal1373]

I feel like this guy will do terrifically in making a Black Mirror episode

[@SebaArias99]

I read in an article that he actually want to make television series, but i don't saw more news about that):

[@henningbackhaus6268]

@@SebaArias99 There were negotiations with HBO for a dystopian series, but Haneke's vision would have been too expensive, so the project was cancelled. I'm sure the scripts are still lying around somewhere. Though Haneke officially retired from filmmaking on his 80th birthday. What I find even more interesting is that he once said he would love to make a western. A realistic western, though, historically accurate. It's a pity he never made that, I think we missed something.

[@veronicaa7748]

@@henningbackhaus6268 Is it about a man who goes back to earth or something like that? pretty sad it god cancelled. Wait, he is 80 now? nooooooo (atleast his last film was called "Happy end")

[@Konoronn]

Black Mirror is terrible now.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

@@henningbackhaus6268 Awww man, I didn't know he retired at 80... too bad! Truly amazing filmmaker. Will never forget first seeing _The White Ribbon,_ which introduced me to his work.

[@williamtaylor9966]

Many of his films are genuinely bleak and disturbing. The ‘pacing’ often building a gnawing, creeping sense of dread and foreboding. ‘Funny Games’ (original version) is a hard watch and few, who I’ve recommended it to, have ‘stayed the course’ because of this. Apart from Haneke’s oeuvre, I’ve only felt this about some equally disturbing Belgian Films. ‘Man bites dog’ anyone?

[@TheQuota2001]

Here is the demon dance. You shall enjoy it. Amen kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWbFmp2AgJqeZ5Y

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

_Man Bites Dog_ is great! The comedic aspect made it relatively easy for me to sit thru - as compared to Haneke, who can truly terrify me like almost no other filmmaker.

[@deadchatterton4978]

@@Jimmy1982Playlists Here in France, Man Bites Dog ("C'est arrivé près de chez vous") is considered as a funny comedy and is very very famous (everybody knows it and everybody quotes it to joke around, it is deep installed in french and belgium popular culture). It's funny that people from other countries see that as a grim movie... Actually, the first time i've seen it, I didn't understand why people saw this as a fun movie. It's actually fucking gross sometimes ! (but I love it)

[@bambinaforever1402]

American version is an exact copy of the original one. What are u talking about

[@user-ve7hn2dh8h]

@@bambinaforever1402 he never claimed the opposite. What are you on about?

[@ryanburke3702]

I wasn’t even able to finish the original funny games. While it was one of the most depraved and psychological movies I’ve ever seen, I wanted to keep watching because I was captivated by it. Eventually I wasn’t able to handle anymore of it and had to shut it off.

[@Belenus3080]

As I’m sure you probably guessed, it doesn’t have a happy ending. I think the remake was an interesting experiment in exposing American audiences to European psychological thriller style. No happy endings, no cheap scares, lots of discomfort and apprehension.

[@debrachambers1304]

*depraved

[@bambinaforever1402]

Really? U did not enjoy the awesome acting? Both german version and american version-incredible acting. Love the film. In american version all my favourite actors. Especially the mean guy. Awesome

[@chrislandaverdedf]

@ryanburke3702 That means you passed Haneke's test.

[@MFLimited]

@@Belenus3080like ACTUAL life in America

[@skaterPeu]

Spikima, I must say. I never came across a YT video that left me in such distress and left me with as many questions that I had when I clicked in it. I truly love the way that you approach Haneke's films and themes, I was able to understand a little bit more of his films through your analysis, but I love the way that, such as Haneke, you dont try to explain everything and every concept and leave to us, the viewers, a bit of a room to try to figure out this crazy and fckd up themes ourselves. Really great job and production. You and your channel are the reason that youtube still has good content. Congrats and thank you from Brasil. Cheers

[@avalon_amy]

Funny Games and Caché are both so weird but have lingered in my mind since I’ve seen them. Didn’t know they were by the same director, but it makes total sense. I should probably see the rest of his work! Thanks for the video.

[@amr_12_]

Benny’s Video features some of the most disturbing, bleak and hopeless scene in the history of films. The one where the boy’s parents talking to each other about dismembering a girl’s corpse who’d been killed by their son. The lacks of music, muted colors, and the performances works so effectively during that scene. It makes me so uncomfortable just thinking about it.

[@maisarod]

This is the prime of all of your video analysis. I'm very glad you decided to tap Haneke, he is just transcendental and cutting edge in every way and I love the fact so many people talk about his film topics in many ways. Your take on this is possibly the one I most agree with and for that I appreciate your channel so much. Thank you for this!

[@Alexander_Mandradjiev]

Really great video. Haneke is one of the greatest film makers in history of cinema and present time. Like Kubrick, Tarkovsky and Kirosawa, his work changes you and teaches us by reflecting our humanity to ourselves. Thank you for making this!

[@keteyo7366]

*Edit: Sorry for my English. Loved the video. I was hoping you'd talk about 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, the last movie from the Glaciation Trilogy. This video made me apreciate that movie even more. I didn't know too much about 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance background or Haneke's as a film director. But when the movie ended, I couldn't help but think about the ways the media tends to portray acts of violence of any scale and how inevitably dehumanizing they are. Also because the movie doesn't have a moment in which it reminds the audience that they're watching a movie, so the film has more time to reckon the spectator, the fact that the people that are participant of those events, being victims or assailants, are still humans with motivations, desires and issues that don't just come with 'the human condition'. This in the rawest way possible (which is maybe why many people don't like Haneke's films, he's straight up raw). Reminding us that outrages, like the ones that the characters have through the movie, capable of being dealt with or not, happen by chance. That maybe depressing, but is a hell of a powerful message.

[@paso6234]

one of my favourite directors of all time the amount of detail he puts in his movies is mind boggling saying that he uses the same tricks every movie doesnt do him justice at all

[@satorumybeloved]

your videos are so well-made, can't believe you haven't reached 1M yet!

[@miketrebert7788]

"Caché" is one of my all time favourites. However, you have to know something about the Paris Massacre of 1961. While only being mentioned in passing, it's the key underlying plot driver. France is in denial about this event, so it perfectly fits Haneke's challenging MO. He's a superlative moralist sometimes, IMHO. Perhaps seldom as overtly as in this film.

[@Haydin1117]

Oh, that was a clever ending.

[@SpikimaMovies]

Why, thank y... CUT TO BLACK

[@sarahh_99]

I absolutely adored this video, it’s perfectly edited and I can tell you’re passionate about the subject, which is fantastic (Also you’re voice is really nice too!)

[@SamL12345]

Haneke should definitely go down as one of the finest filmmakers in history. I could go on all day about him, but one thing I'd like to say is that I don't think there is a single filmmaker out there who treats the audience with more respect than Haneke. Superb video as always by the way bro, you nailed it.

[@donnadizucchero]

Second that.

[@WetDrainHair]

i have never had a film ever make me feel such a hopelessness and sickness like funny games (specifically the 1997 one) did. I was in fight or flight throughout the entire film.

[@popcornphilosophy1488]

One of my favorite filmmakers of all time and easily the best video I’ve seen done on his work, thank you! 71 Fragments of Chronology of Chance has stuck in my head for over a year now, along with almost all of his films! Even his worst film imo, The Castle, is strikingly memorable!

[@Zsemlemester99]

Hey! Just wanted to say that your Instagram page rocks! Cheers! 😎

[@TheGoddon]

What never fails to piss me off is when that guy from funny games picks up a remote and rewinds his friends death.

[@pablovergara7338]

God. I love this channel. I found it searching for movie references this Halloween season and I just keep watching every video

[@dopesickammo]

benny’s video is one of my top 4 FAVORITE films ever. michael haneke is a brilliant director.

[@bernacarangan]

ok a minute in and i've decided to go and watch some more haneke films will see yall in a few months Edit: I forgot I even commented this lmao ---- I watched happy end, code unknown, the white ribbon, the piano teacher, and amour --- it was a very rough journey watching these because I never know what to expect and also because sometimes I couldn't really fully comprehend what was happening --- but I did really like piano teacher and amour --- those might go on my favorite movie list (I wouldn't recommend them but I did like them)

[@joelpetersen2480]

"The White Ribbon" is a freaking masterpeice.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Amen!

[@simongarrettmusic]

Don't watch Funny Games, it's horrible and you won't be better off afterwards.

[@christiananderson4909]

The White Ribbon is my personal favorite in his filmography.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

The first Haneke film I saw, and it's still my favorite... absolutely unforgettable!

[@GodBless423]

You’re a Brave Man !

[@sweco92]

The editing, the narrative, this video was so well-made and thank you for pronouncing _Michael Haneke_ appropriately. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@raineeace]

The piano teacher and funny games had such a chokehold on me during film school. Absolutely loved them though. Great video btw ❤❤

[@RCady33]

Whoa, accolades for just sitting down and binging his movies...ugh, do you have PTSD now?

[@SpikimaMovies]

Had one since Lars von Trier binge anyways...:')

[@mjgfromDDD]

Love that ending lol. Brilliant work my friend!

[@gregv2821]

I love cerebral, unusual, disturbing, and unsettling films. Thanks for this thorough and well-presented analysis. I've never seen a Haneke film. I will be sure to avoid wasting my time on a single one of them.

[@shane505]

This was great. Michael Haneke is a genius, this was really interesting.

[@Amantducafe]

Never heard of this director so i think i'll make a 2023 goal to watch all his movies. Edit: It is now 2024 and i'm a broken man.

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

The White Ribbon is my favorite of the movies for every element Haneke can create kinda spiraling together in beautiful way. I also watched Cache two times in same week even tho people might think it's boring, funny thing is that it actually does do give the mystery out there to find if you just give it a tought and Reallly good look. That's kinda the beauty of Cache, if you get hung up on what happened and think it thru and thru and thru. There is so many good ones in his chatalogue that you could go on and on but I think that Cache kinda is very much so in your face about how most of his movies are made to make you think. Just his first movie barely has dialogue in it but just because of the last segment that kinda explains the silence in some ways and ehat happens made his movie even be talked about because it was seen as cardinal sin to flush money from toilet and that made a lot of furthermore talk about consumerism aka the film kinda fullfilled it's purpose by making people think. I find it a bit funny that he made frame to frame replica of Funny Games with US actors just because the message in it was more so directed towards US's culture and he tought the message would translate better which is the reason he did the remake rather than selling out. I think his after that movies kinda proves that he did stick to his principles even tho he certainly got a hefty paycheck from it. The Piano Teacher being about loneliness and twisted relationship to her mother that created thru the years all of the.. quite far our there ways to release that repression and loneliness in her highly routined but not so normal life and the concequencess where the mind can twist with years of it. Nothing is really solved in the end but the floodgates somewhat just opened during the movie to see one kinda excistence and maybe try to explain how one can be born. I find it more fascinating than disturbing even tho I wouldn't say the latter wouldn't descripe the movie. It kinda has to for exploring the theme. You could go on and on about every work of his since again they Do Make You Think, which I love about Haneke.

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

Just to say. If there is some same info, I wrote this before watching to not be influenced by what the analyzis says.

[@TheLamphouseBCP]

Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noe back to back? I've got to ask... are you okay?

[@WISHARTfilms]

I thought the same thing lol

[@SpikimaMovies]

I've been permanently disturbed since Lars von Trier marathon so at this point I'm just..nonexistent

[@TheLamphouseBCP]

@@SpikimaMovies Hahaha. You suffer for your art. Great videos!

[@CherryChase]

Been waiting for a comprehensive dive into what makes Haneke movies so unique. And I’m glad to say this was exactly what I was looking for

[@learninghowto101]

by how you described his works. I bet his works are really amazing and I would love to watch them but I have these attachement to these kinds of films and they linger on my mind for quite a quite and can sometimes get me stressed for thinking too much of it, so I won't probably not watch these movies no matter how intrigued I am.

[@account7135]

He didnt mention haneke first film (The seventh continent).definitely not for everyone. But it can change people's live forever

[@redsol3629]

Please keep up the good work, your focus on this strange aspect of horror intrigues me.

[@ryleyvaillancourt8178]

I'm a huge fan of you're videos!

[@charliekane954]

your*

[@fast1nakus]

I do appreciate his existence and understand why people like his work, but personally I hate it. his movies always remind me Crime and Punishment(Dostoevsky) for the same kind of misery porn feeling

[@lenomnom]

Haha, couldn’t have said it better myself. I’ve only seen two of his movies and I was left with a sense of “it’s a great movie but I didn’t enjoy watching it a little bit” both times.

[@samlyf101]

I mean, they're basically misery porn. Every Haneke film has been an exercise in misery, and as an audience you have to suffer with his characters. I guess it's subjective whether you're into that sort of thing or not.

[@jakfan09]

Crime and Punishment is one of my favorite novels ever. Probably explains why I like Haneke.

[@fast1nakus]

@@jakfan09 I'm curious, do you channel it through like a catharsis stuff or is it like a window into a different place?

[@jakfan09]

@@fast1nakus Both.

[@amyzanlungo556]

I loved Funny Games and Haneke has come up on my radar so many times. I came to this video after watching one making comparisons to The White Ribbon and Point of Interest. Now I feel like I need to watch all of his. Also, this feels like it could be a full semester of study on his work. Great job!

[@pdzombie1906]

Such an underrated director, despite winning the Palm d'or twice. Great video!! Thanx!!!

[@Tarrynmj]

Amazing video as always 👏🏽👏🏽

[@thomasalbert6687]

Want to commend you for avoiding the word "trope" in your---admirable as always---presentation. I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something spellbinding about your work. There are the "smarts" of course, and the evenness of the narration, a communication of dedication and an authenticity. It is not the first time I have left a video of yours feeling more calm and more settled.

[@uphillracer]

Hey, cool video! You left out the one I found the harshest: The Seventh Continent

[@lucasclark5862]

So glad about this video. There’s not enough people talking about Haneke.

[@ArvArvs]

6:55 OMG is that Werner Ziegler?

[@yonos007]

Michael Haneke Films are So Unsettling that it even took me forever to get through your video on them.

[@violinsinthevoid4579]

Amour, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, and even his minor films like the Castle and 71 Fragments are so successfully unsettling. Amour is my favorite. But none of his films will destroy my sense of comfort and happiness with humanity more than Benny’s Video.

[@dumfriesspearhead7398]

I've only read a synopsis and seen reviews about it and that's enough for me.

[@No-xr7vx]

""the birthed agitation from the abrupt death of epiphany" is the most pretentious thing I've read this year

[@mohamedsherif4096]

I don't think I will ever be able to emotionally recover from the piano teacher. This shit was the most traumatizing movie I've ever watched! I've also watched caché and funny games, but the piano teacher is unparalleled in terms of the amount of disturbance it will cause you!

[@sixteenstringjack]

It's worse than Funny Games?! OMG I can hardly imagine. Took me years to recover from Funny Games

[@bentrend]

Seventh Continent was Haneke’s most upsetting movie to me. I’d even say by a wide margin

[@hebemariacarreira8344]

Great essay! Haneke in one of best directors! "Elle", "Amour" "The Piano Teacher" my favourites. Superb!

[@silentb7563]

Elle is Verhoeven not Haneke.

[@hebemariacarreira8344]

@@silentb7563 Sorry! I was wrong! 😞

[@silentb7563]

@@hebemariacarreira8344i no harm meant . I just feel like Elle is something wildly diff in intention ,it's almost vulgar compared to Haneke's stuff .

[@hebemariacarreira8344]

@@silentb7563 Yes, of course! 👍

[@suburbjorn]

Michael haneke is one of my favorite directors ever… we used to joke about having a “feel good” film festival with just him and Lars Von trier movies 😂

[@playlistkiddo5654]

I appreciate that you took the time to look up how to pronounce Michael Haneke's name. It's quite tricky for Non-Native speakers.👍

[@knowledgeable3302]

I love this channel so much.

[@_Diesel]

Your analyses are my favourite

[@juannaym8488]

I don't think Haneke's movies hit me as hard because I grew up and was socialized in Vienna, a few Kilometers from where Haneke grew up, where he himself got socialized and where he created a lot of his movies. Whilst what he does in his films seems foreign and terrifying to foreigners, it's simply how life is portrayed and seen here in Austria

[@veronicaa7748]

Haneke once asked by women after attending his first film and said ; "Is Austria really that depressing?" I guess he isn't lying

[@megaultradamn]

May I ask why Austria is so depressing?

[@juannaym8488]

@@megaultradamn it just... Is. Idk. The people just fucking life here

[@thenorsepioneer7311]

I think I stopped feeling anything from his films because he relies on the same tricks every motion picture. The sequence and static shots work to it's desired effects the first time you see a few of his films; but when you see them again and again you realise what is coming. That realisation of what is coming kills the tension for me and in turn makes it feel like he's trying to manipulate the audience, which he said he'd never want to do.

[@etalex7074]

There's certain techniques he uses for sure, but every single time he does they are in completely different contexts that change the meaning. Not to mention he does it with a decent amount of variety. It's kind of like criticizing Tarantino for drawn out dialogue scenes, although he falters every now and then.

[@donnadizucchero]

Remember how Fincher once mentioned that humans are the most perverted animals out there?)) I think Haneke is exploring exactly that theme,hence "one Haneke film is all the rest Haneke films", in that sense. Also I'm almost sure he's a pure artist, he's not after any reaction from his audiences, he's after what he feels true to himself as a creator, cinematographer, author. He doesn't have it on his mind to entertain the public while getting cast, script, shots, music, locations together. His works are....say....like "War&Peace" by Tolstoy - you will never, most likely,give it another read. But if you'll never try - you'll miss out on number of important things, themes about human nature. Again, you don't have to. But... there's always something behind those "heavy" (= unsettling, uncomfortable, abrasive) works of art. It's a serious discussion, when the artist trusts his audience to speak at the same level. No matter how heartbreaking and cruel his works are - they're purposeful and genuine. Who says the artist has to be docile, well-rounded and his works - pretty and charming? Art appears with million faces,in billions of shapes. Think about Goya, Bosch, Van Gogh. Their works are also sort of "the same". We still appreciate and find new meanings and messages in them after centuries past. Haneke is about awakening. The awakening from an indulgent, sticky, heavy deep sleep European society had found itself to be under the spell of for the last decades of the 20ieth century. Such abrupt and unceremonious awakening just can't, shouldn't be "soft", pleasing, nice in any way. Also it's not meant to be exactly like that every morning))) A wise person makes amends, organises themselves and prepare for the upcoming day, instead of hoping that it'll never come and the beautiful dream will be eternal. Peace.

[@nhac-space]

@@donnadizucchero love your comment.

[@nhac-space]

I never call that is "tricks".

[@krautgazer]

@@etalex7074 I agree with you. I don't see what's wrong with an artist using the same trademarks while portraying different meanings with them. Hell, I don't even see what's wrong in portraying the SAME meaning. Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite directors of all time even though all of his films are incredibily similar to each other and always portraying the same theme of family and generational conflict - I still want to watch all of them.

[@dymondkittync]

I clicked on this not realizing I had seen one of his films. The Piano Teacher. This was quit some time ago. Scarred for life. So nope. Won't be watching anymore of his films 😂. One was enough.

[@Ad_Astra2023]

I didn’t know who Haneke was but I do remember Funny games well as it is one of those rare films I had to stop watching in the middle because it was too unsettling to watch. Dang, now I know who you’re talking about here.

[@walkergoff3127]

Relevant meta ending lol. You make great content.

[@ahobimo732]

I think Hanaeke is a sadist. His films don't have a message, because Hanaeke doesn't have anything to say. He just wants to hurt people, and he uses his films to do that. Needless to say, I think he's despicable.

[@lesliez6817]

Imagine Michael Haneke watching your video right now.

[@anothermoon8894]

Amazing video! Thank you! I'm Austrian and I love Haneke's movies. He influenced the Austrian way of movie making tremendously and I highly recommend to watch the movies of Ulrich Seidl as well, if your are interested in more Austrian movies. Seidl as well without a filter shows what Austrian's shamefully hide. Austrians really have their own particular way of filming (and although I love my German neighbours but they could NEVER be on the same level as Austrian movies).

[@cepho8349]

There are many fantastic German movies as well. But I agree that Austrian cinema is great and seems to be punching above its weight.

[@michaelmoonlight4484]

My all time favorite director. Many of his films are too hard to watch if your life is filled with enough disturbing content. If so, cache is a great one that is relatively easy to stomach if I remember correctly. My favorite is the english remake of funny games and least favorite is hour of the wolf

[@deadchatterton4978]

Really great video but I'm quite surprised that you didn't mentioned The 7th Continent once... his first and, in my opinion, best movie... It conveys such a definitive message in such a perfect way that I always considered his others movies as kind of littles extensions from that one. 7th Continent is literally a manifest which drives the rest of his filmography. Perhaps it has never been released in your country ?

[@krautgazer]

That movie is great, one of the best debut features by any director.

[@cepho8349]

It technically wasn't his first film. But yeah, it's excellent.

[@merxeddie6474]

When a director points a static camera at a image that has no intrinsic aesthetic value or that doesn’t advance the narrative ark thats unsettling or is it just fecking boring.

[@masterzoroark6664]

I got to know about and saw Funny Games like.... 4-5 years ago and I still remember my personal distain stemming from anger at the injustice at the end of the movie. And well... getting drowned while unable to defend yourself is a form of death that is something that causes deep fear in me, that's another reason causing this movie to from time to time step rent free into my mind

[@AussoOnePlus]

Dude, what's the song you used in 0:46?!!

[@hunterhanson930]

i need to know what song starts playing at 0:45

[@leonslaughtergraves]

Me too

[@chuknorth]

Thanks for the intro to Haneke. Have been sitting on Funny Games for a while... might watch it one day. It's unclear that Haneke's darkness is worth the indulgence of time.

[@simondavidsmith]

Fabulous video about my favourite director. Thank you.

[@mamapegg]

I haven't heard of him. Now I know what I'm doing after work tomorrow night. Great video, btw.

[@xhonorisx]

what is the name of the band at 00:49? pkease

[@eoncatalyst]

Nicely done video! I like his films. but my favorite one from him is "Time of the Wolf" (2003) Very underrated film. He didn't try to be an edge lord there and made a mature film.

[@AussoOnePlus]

What's the song at 0:46 ??

[@klientproby]

Thank you for the review and analyses of this film director. This is why I avoid such films because I don't find them particularly enjoyable or enlightening. These kinds of films are, imo, excellent for film courses/film school, but I find them annoying and tiresome. Seeing one or two might be alright, but after that......Obv this director isn't for everybody. I find it interesting that a lot of the films seem to make frequent use of children, which I like, and the violence isn't limited to male on female, which is refreshing.

[@whitneybaxter3299]

Funny games broke me… even though most of the violence was implied it was by far the most vicious movie ive ever seen and ive seen some dark movies. It felt like that movie hated its audience and rubbed it in our faces with the meta narrative and idk if thats a good thing. I appreciate what it was doing but at the same time i felt victimized by it and I feel like just as with a predatory animal you’ve got to respect it at a distance and stay away from it.

[@AsAugustSleeps]

It’s by far the most cruel movie I’ve ever seen and I think the whole point of the movie is to make you feel like a POS for watching it and make you question why you watch that kind of crap.

[@marvinmandela95]

First time watching ur videos. This one made me subscribe immediately. Thank u for the content.

[@user-th6gs1bz3j]

great editing on this video

[@freddyb1769]

Very insightful analysis! This is an old video so I doubt you’ll even see this, but there’s one thing I’d love to get your thoughts on. You mention that Cache never reveals the culprit behind the tapes, and yet later in the video you fixate on the shot that I believe does reveal them. Maybe that shot is slightly open ended, as the takeaway must be inferred rather than explicitly understood, but i would be interested to know how you interpret that last revelation. Again, great work.

[@MaxfieldAllison]

oh that cut at the end got me. Love you're videos and analysis

[@vincentbatten4686]

What song is the guitar line from at 0:45. It's driving me crazy. I can't remember the song.

[@jeiangardoceagtas6524]

I wish I can explain films like this. Its extraordinary.

[@sunshinef263y]

You probably can You just don't think you can rn.

[@calamari89]

I was so excited them I saw that you had made a new video. These always make my day.

[@thrivedru]

I wonder if George and Anne were his parents

[@zla3031]

Excellent video! Love Haneke, but have been putting off watching Amour for years.

[@SpikimaMovies]

Oh you really should! Crushed me.

[@echos-myron]

The Seventh Continent is so difficult to reckon with; the darkness is all encompassing . Apparently people seeing it in the theater lost their minds when he flushes all the money down the toilet; there’s something so poignant about that. I also love his Kafka film The Castle; and the way John Zorn’s music works in Funny Games. An Auteur that I have to force myself to watch his films; because that’s why he made them.

[@BillykOTW]

Those misleading cuts are normally scene in comedy films. That’s pretty interesting lol

[@saurabhkulkarni8854]

You’re criminally under subscribed.

[@sleepwalkLIVE]

Funny, I just watched funny games (2007) yesterday. Love that movie and love your content.

[@josipamatic6085]

Ameri

[@rainepanda]

Your videos are so well thought out and produced! I learn so much. You make me understand and appreciate films from a much deeper place

[@lowengeist]

Great video ! Thank you for this.