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Michael Haneke
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Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.
— On the meaning of pigeons in his movies, "Michael Haneke talks about Amour , interview by Karin Schiefer, Austrian Film Commission, May 2012
Michael Haneke
Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)
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Born 1942 · age 84Austria
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He films the gaps where connection should be — the coldness inside comfortable lives, the violence humming under polite surfaces. Haneke's camera doesn't comfort; it watches you watching, and the discomfort is the point.
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Born 23 March 1942, Haneke began with a trilogy — The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny's Video (1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) — each dissecting a bureaucratic society where real bonds had withered into collective malaise, consumerism bleeding into violence. The Piano Teacher (2001) won Cannes' Grand Prix. He remade Funny Games in English nearly shot-for-shot in 2007, a provocation about audience complicity. The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) each took the Palme d'Or; the latter won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He teaches film direction at the Film Acade…
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Michael Haneke
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I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television.
— as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31,
Michael Haneke
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Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth.
— as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31,
Michael Haneke
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All of my films constitute a reaction against mainstream cinema. Every serious form of art sees the receiver as a partner in the undertaking.
— In response to the question, "You're well known for not wanting to impose interpretations on your films. Is this because you believe that
Michael Haneke
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Today's conventional cinema, or mass cinema, doesn't take the receiver seriously as a partner.
— as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31,
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- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Sonning Prize
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