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Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys

Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages

2000

Michael Haneke

Juliette Binoche, Luminita Gheorghiu, Thierry Neuvic, Ona Lu Yenke ...

6.6

5,016

Drama Paris. A crowded boulevard. Somebody drops a crumpled scrap of paper into the outstretched hand of a begging woman. The paper is the link that briefly connects the paths of some very different people. Anne is a budding young movie actress. She lives mostly for her work and has little time for her private life. Her boyfriend, Georges, has left his wife and young son. He's a war photographer and is rarely in France. Georges's father is a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Masterpiece? Enigma? Both?"
		David Rooney Variety	"Deciphering Michael Haneke's intricately structured 'Code Unknown' is not especially difficult, but the elementary information behind it barely justifies the effort"
		Time Out	"Despite the film's Bressonian rigours, its emotional force should finally give the lie to Haneke's reputation as a coldly academic film-maker."
		Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"This isn’t necessarily Haneke’s best film (though it’s certainly in the running), but it’s definitely his least hectoring and his most mysterious"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Code Unknown' certainly intrigues though it’s too irritating and tedious to put its fragments together (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		David Parkinson Radio Times	"If some of the political theorising is somewhat naive and the direction is occasionally manipulative, the acting, particularly from Juliette Binoche, is superb."

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