Michael Haneke

• Michael Haneke, Austrian filmmaker, born in Munich in 1942.

  The son of actor parents, Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and the dramatic arts at the University of Vienna. After his début in theatre, where he staged works by Goethe, Kleist, Strindberg, and Duras, he became a television director, then turned to film. His first feature, The Seventh Continent (1989), inaugurated his Austrian trilogy known as “emotional glaciation”. The filmmaker’s style was already apparent through the  X-ray vision of his almost clinical staging of human impulses and feelings. Later, he would endlessly and starkly reveal the violence of the contemporary world, all the better to explore the “ordinary evil” of our societies – from Funny Games to The Piano Teacher, Caché to The White Ribbon. His œuvre, richly endowed with a dozen films, has received the highest honours, including two Palmes d’or at Cannes. In 2012, with Amour, he gave Jean-Louis Trintignant one of his finest roles, who was at that time also at the zenith of his art. 

• The Seventh Continent (1989) - Benny's Video (1992) - 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) - Funny Games (1997) - Code Unknown (2000) - The Piano Teacher (2001) - Time of the Wolf (2003) - Caché (2005) - Funny Games (2007) - The White Ribbon (2009) - Amour (2012) - Happy End (2017)