CiNEMERCATOR - Michael Haneke Der siebente Kontinent 1989
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 film per month.
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition
10-9
Michael Haneke’s feature debut is a quiet indictment of the hollow spaces behind modern functionality. In this early work, his aesthetic is already fully formed: austere, clinical, and devastating in its restraint. A rigorously composed statement of intent; a cinema of precision, refusal, and confrontation.
With forensic detachment the camera observes the daily routines of a middle-class Austrian family; brushing teeth, preparing breakfast, sitting silently in the car. Repetition becomes rhythm. Life is revealed not as lived experience but as ritualized function. And then the system begins to collapse. What initially appears as emotional distancing is slowly revealed as something far more deliberate: a calculated withdrawal from the world. The family is not breaking down, they are opting out. Methodically, without sentiment or hesitation, they dismantle their existence. No explanation is offered. Haneke refuses psychology. He denies narrative comfort. The title, referencing Australia as a final escape, suggests a longing for a place that perhaps never existed. The seventh continent remains unreachable.
This film is chosen by Elisabeth
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