Easily one of the most provocative, oblique, and fascinating directors of contemporary European cinema, Michael Haneke's debut feature, THE SEVENTH CONTINENT, remains a masterpiece of existentialism and eerie violence. A married couple and their daughter go about their prosaic lives in a mechanical fashion; Haneke presents their lives as barely more than a series of rote mannerisms--even sex becomes a passive activity. On the surface, everything seems perfectly normal, but the film hints at a lurking malaise: the mother breaks, inexplicably, into tears as they drive through a carwash, the daughter feigns blindness at school, and then, suddenly, without warning, the family performs a drastic act of violence.
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
(unspecified) - French
Subtitles- English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Interview - 1. Michael Haneke - Director
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Review 1:
"[It] remains one of his most powerful and disturbing films, and one of his most enigmatic as well."
Source: Film Comment
p.78 04/01/2006
Review 2:
"[A] formally rigorous feature debut....Gripping..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.86 01/01/2007
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