Samuel LoveOne of European cinema’s most uncompromising filmmakers, Michael Haneke is known for his dark, meticulous films – from Funny Games and Caché to The White Ribbon and Amour, his work often refuses easy answers or explanation. Curzon have now re-released their exhaustive 14-disc collection of his filmography in a standard edition, alongside a new release of his masterful drama The Piano Teacher, giving audiences a chance to revisit his distinctive and often unsettling body of work. A must-own for fans of world cinema.
Michael Haneke: A Curzon Collection
This 14-disc Blu-ray collection contains Michael Haneke’s entire feature filmography, plus newly restored TV works from the acclaimed director. From his Glaciation Trilogy to the shock of Funny Games and subsequent Palme d’Or-winning films The White Ribbon and Amour, Haneke has developed a style that articulately fuses social critique with a cinema of transcendent beauty in its precision, purpose and humanity. With formal disruption and sly reminders of artifice, as well as empathy and dark humour, Haneke stares where others fear to glance. In his worlds, we are all complicit – even him, even you.
Films included:
- Three Paths to the Lake (1976)
- Lemmings 1: Arcadia (1979)
- Lemmings 2: Injuries (1979)
- Variation (1983)
- The Seventh Continent (1989)
- Benny’s Video (1992)
- The Rebellion (1993)
- 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance (1994)
- Funny Games (1997)
- The Castle (1997)
- Code Unknown (2000)
- The Piano Teacher (2001)
- Time of the Wolf (2003)
- Hidden (2005)
- Funny Games U.S. (2007)
- The White Ribbon (2009)
- Amour (2012)
- Happy End (2017)
Special Features
Includes several documentaries about Haneke (including Michael H – Profession: Director) as well as new commentaries, interviews, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and more.
The Piano Teacher
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered – unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.
MICHAEL HANEKE: A CURZON COLLECTION and THE PIANO TEACHER are available from Curzon
