Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales Of Several Journeys

2000, Movie, NR, 118 mins

Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales Of Several Journeys: Review

CODE UNKNOWN: INCOMPLETE TALES OF SEVERAL JOURNEYS | CODE INCONNU: RECIT INCOMPLET DE DIVERS VOYAGES

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 c... read more leave a comment