The Seventh Continent (1989)
(Der Siebente Kontinent)
Country: ÖST
Technical: col 90m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Dieter Berner, Udo Samel, Leni Tanzer
Synopsis:
In 1989 a not especially dysfunctional couple and their daughter systematically destroy their belongings, flush their money down the toilet and kill themselves with drugs. No one knows why.
Review:
Through a very clinical mise-en-scène and static, anatomizing camera set-ups, the director explores the lives of his subjects for two years prior to their deaths (breakfast, visits to the car wash, supermarket, promotion at work) and posits, in the boredom of quotidian detail, consumerism, and professional success, an explanation for their nihilistic and selfish end.
(Der Siebente Kontinent)
Country: ÖST
Technical: col 90m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Dieter Berner, Udo Samel, Leni Tanzer
Synopsis:
In 1989 a not especially dysfunctional couple and their daughter systematically destroy their belongings, flush their money down the toilet and kill themselves with drugs. No one knows why.
Review:
Through a very clinical mise-en-scène and static, anatomizing camera set-ups, the director explores the lives of his subjects for two years prior to their deaths (breakfast, visits to the car wash, supermarket, promotion at work) and posits, in the boredom of quotidian detail, consumerism, and professional success, an explanation for their nihilistic and selfish end.
(Der Siebente Kontinent)
Country: ÖST
Technical: col 90m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Dieter Berner, Udo Samel, Leni Tanzer
Synopsis:
In 1989 a not especially dysfunctional couple and their daughter systematically destroy their belongings, flush their money down the toilet and kill themselves with drugs. No one knows why.
Review:
Through a very clinical mise-en-scène and static, anatomizing camera set-ups, the director explores the lives of his subjects for two years prior to their deaths (breakfast, visits to the car wash, supermarket, promotion at work) and posits, in the boredom of quotidian detail, consumerism, and professional success, an explanation for their nihilistic and selfish end.