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The 7th Continent (The Seventh Continent)

Der siebente Kontinent (AKA The 7th Continent)

1989

Michael Haneke

Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel ...

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Drama Haneke's first feature is a stylistic take on the anguish of boredom. The film follows three years in the lives of a professional middle class couple searching vainly for an escape from their stifling complacency, and their emotionally troubled daughter who fakes blindness to get attention at school. Haneke uses recurring images of a far away Australian beach as a symbol of the impossibility of their persistent fantasies of escape. A ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A chilling and utterly brilliant film whose final, excoriating sequence is frankly sufficient on its own to justify the 'genius' tag"
		Caryn James The New York Times	"Michael Haneke pulls viewers through a good portion of the film on the sheer strength of his visual flair, avoiding the classic trap of how to create a film about boredom that is not boring."
		Time Out	"Hugely chastening, strangely beautiful, and extremely impressive"

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