Complicit: A Michael Haneke Season on 35mm
Sun 3 - Sun 31 Aug
Throughout his extraordinary career, Michael Haneke has consistently provoked us with questions of bourgeois complacency, alienation and disconnect. From the shock of Funny Games, to subsequent Palme d’Or-winning films The White Ribbon and Amour, Haneke articulately fuses social critique with cinema of great precision, purpose and humanity.
Predicting compassion fatigue and numbing contemporary news cycles with eerie prescience, he stares where others fear to glance. In his worlds, we are all complicit – even him, even you. Holding us accountable, albeit with empathy and often dark humour, these films - all presented on 35mm film - challenge us to see through societal malaise and interrogate our place in the world. If you hold their gaze long enough…
‘Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.’ – Michael Haneke
The films in this season feature themes of sexual violence, incest, suicide, harm to children, assisted dying and graphic violence. For more information, please refer to the guidance provided by the BBFC.
Upcoming screenings in this season
Funny Games
classified 18 S A Michael Haneke Season
What is our obsession with screen violence? It’s a question Michael Haneke explores with surgical scrutiny in this chilling drama. Presented on 35mm film.
The Piano Teacher
classified 18 S A Michael Haneke Season
When a piano teacher's student attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shatters. Presented on 35mm film..
This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a TV presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his family. Presented on 35mm film.
The White Ribbon
classified 15 S A Michael Haneke Season
Themes of guilt and denial haunt this riveting Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece by Michael Haneke. Presented on 35mm film.
Michael Haneke’s 2013 Oscar®- and Palme d’Or-winning drama follows an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge yet. Presented on 35mm film.