An interesting departure for Austrian director Michael Haneke, whose best-known films take an often brutal look at violence and spectatorship (witness 1997's disturbing FUNNY GAMES). Here, Haneke and the great German cinematographer Jurgen Jurges present a portrait of life in Paris as lived by a group of very different characters, lives touched by violence of a painfully ordinary nature: domestic abuse, indifference, lies, casual racism and prosaic humiliations. The central character is aspiring actress Anne Laurent (Juliette Binoche), who's currently shooting a thriller about a psychopath who "collects" unsuspecting women. Anne's boyfriend, danger-seeking photojourn...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
118 mins