(1989) The Seventh Continent/ Der siebente Kontinent
(In German with English subtitles)
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
Co-written and directed by Michael Haneke the first of his "Glaciation" trilogy with "Benny's Video" from 1992 and then "71 Fragments of Chronology of Chance" from 1994 directing a no plot movie depicting a span of three years shown in segments, ending the movie with a shocking ending that makes zero sense. It claims at the end that the case labelled as unsolved, but the co-writer and director Michael Haneke tries to imply one thing that also could have been something else such as "Funny Games" for instance.
For the first hour and a half as we witness, Georg Schober (Dieter Berner), Anna Schober (Birgit Doll) and their daughter, Evi Schober (Leni Tanzer) going about their daily lives of going through the car wash, making and eating dinner, and spend time watching TV, grocery shopping with Georg going to work and so forth.
Viewers are not hearing the discussions between the Georg and his wife, Anna about their suicidal pact, or the reason why they are tired about this type of lifestyle that can be reminiscent to a cult but with very few words spoken. During my time watching it, I almost dozed off as their is no plot to be figured out here with getting more from reading the reviews than I got from the movie itself.
Co-written and directed by Michael Haneke the first of his "Glaciation" trilogy with "Benny's Video" from 1992 and then "71 Fragments of Chronology of Chance" from 1994 directing a no plot movie depicting a span of three years shown in segments, ending the movie with a shocking ending that makes zero sense. It claims at the end that the case labelled as unsolved, but the co-writer and director Michael Haneke tries to imply one thing that also could have been something else such as "Funny Games" for instance.
For the first hour and a half as we witness, Georg Schober (Dieter Berner), Anna Schober (Birgit Doll) and their daughter, Evi Schober (Leni Tanzer) going about their daily lives of going through the car wash, making and eating dinner, and spend time watching TV, grocery shopping with Georg going to work and so forth.
Viewers are not hearing the discussions between the Georg and his wife, Anna about their suicidal pact, or the reason why they are tired about this type of lifestyle that can be reminiscent to a cult but with very few words spoken. During my time watching it, I almost dozed off as their is no plot to be figured out here with getting more from reading the reviews than I got from the movie itself.