Agent Provocateur
Michael Haneke over America
The rest you know, or most of it anyway. Haneke’s work from The Seventh Continent on was the subject of a recent LACMA retrospective and is presently available on DVD. Starting with The Piano Teacher (2001), he has enjoyed regular commercial releases of his films in North America, culminating in the $4 million domestic gross of Caché in 2005 (and the subsequent announcement that it was due for a Ron Howard makeover). Collectively, Haneke’s work is a compelling counterargument to the myriad Antonioni and Bergman obituaries that bemoaned the death of movies able to make audiences linger outside the theater, arguing into the night. Still, there are those who continue to dismiss Haneke as a low-rent shock artist, and even the umbrella title of this series pegs him as a provocateur. That’s not entirely without cause, as anyone who has witnessed Caché’s gasp-inducing throat slitting can attest. But the most disturbing and violent moments in Haneke’s films remain the quietest — those hesitant, unfulfilled gestures toward human connection, like distant sparks swallowed by darkness.
MICHAEL HANEKE: A CINEMA OF PROVOCATION | The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre | Saturdays, through Nov. 24 | www.silentmovie?theatre.com
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