Haneke is like a post-postmodernist film-maker. He highlights the composed artificial nature of film-making, while simultaneously presenting scenarios in a hyper-realistic manner, void of the normal comforts which cue us in to the artifice of the traditional cinema, such as a musical score. He goes far beyond the postmodern fixation on inter-textual irony ala figures such as Tarantino. The function of his cinema is to confront the reality, particularly the reality of the consequences of violence, incarnate within the fictive simulation and the dialectical indissociability of the latter from the former. Haneke imparts on us the wisdom to take fictions seriously.
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Good interview. Haneke is the greatest living Western filmmaker. Frighteningly prophetic. Notice how his older movies seem completely fresh.
Haneke is like a post-postmodernist film-maker. He highlights the composed artificial nature of film-making, while simultaneously presenting scenarios in a hyper-realistic manner, void of the normal comforts which cue us in to the artifice of the traditional cinema, such as a musical score. He goes far beyond the postmodern fixation on inter-textual irony ala figures such as Tarantino. The function of his cinema is to confront the reality, particularly the reality of the consequences of violence, incarnate within the fictive simulation and the dialectical indissociability of the latter from the former. Haneke imparts on us the wisdom to take fictions seriously.
Thank you. You've reignited my interest in Haneke.
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