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Michael Haneke is so tied to a particular dark and disturbing style of filmmaking - his subjects have included child murderers, suicide, sexual repression and sadomasochism - that interviewers are often surprised by the twinkly-eyed grandfather they meet in person...
...Dark? Yes. Disturbing? Absolutely. But Haneke wants his films to challenge his audiences, not merely entertain. "If cinema is exclusively there to produce some aestheticizing lie, that's sad," he says. "If film wants to be a serious art form, it has to take the audience seriously and not simply move them but also engage with them...
Does this mean Haneke is becoming a tiny bit softer in his old age? He doesn't see it that way - in fact, he rejects the notion that his films reflect his personality at all. "People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am," he says, a wry smile sneaking out from beneath his beard. "I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist." (Read a brief history of the Palme...
...George Brandt, behavioral-health chief at the base hospital, a cure means "being able to get on the floor and play with your kids. Then you know you're home." For Waddell, it may take longer. He says, "Even though Marshéle and I are still in a dark valley, we haven't built our house here. We're just passing through...
...plot structure of the noirish Live Flesh: the toxic romantic geometry of a triangle love story. In the world of telenovela melodrama that has long appealed to Almodóvar, jealousy must be twisted into violence at the top of a winding staircase, while lust collides with a dark fate on a highway with one too many cars...