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German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of people: the French actress Anne .. Read more

Starring	Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler
Director	Michael Haneke
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Where Haneke's earlier 71 Fragments... traced a web of seemingly unconnected events leading up to a catastrophe, this... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14
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- - 37
  - 8
  Quality film making!
  
  This is one of those films that leaves you feeling as though you have been winded. In the best possible way. Powerful direction that does not lay the narrative ... read more »
  
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  - immaterial
  - London
  - 20 Feb 2004 at 00:06
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  - 0
  Thrilling, not a Thriller.
  
  This film is unfortunately titled. I'm afraid a lot of people have rented it expecting a Bruce Willis style thriller and although it is a thrilling film ... read more »
  
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- - ditdotdat
  - 1 review
  - 27 Mar 2012 at 20:15
- - 0
  - 0
  code ok
  
  This is an interesting film, it broke most conventional film making theories. eg) having a start, middle, and end. This might seem to be a pretty terminal ... read more »
  
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- - gothic
  - 70 reviews
  - Craigavon
  - 10 Jan 2012 at 23:17
- - 0
  - 1
  Confused No Continuity
  
  Although a number of reviewers liked this film we struggle to understand why. We stayed with for 75% but the constant switching of the stories just left us ... read more »
  
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- - Birkdaleveiwer
  - 2 reviews
  - 09 Jan 2012 at 19:51
- - 2
  - 0
  Intriguing and enigmatic
  
  If you like a film with a beginning, a middle and and end, you won't like this.
  
  But if you like something that makes you think and gives a ... read more »
  
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- - FoxRoy
  - 3 reviews
  - 07 Dec 2011 at 16:15
- - 2
  - 0
  A film to remember
  
  Once I got the hang of watching the fragments, I found it rivetting. Each fragment really packed a punch and was a brilliant cameo. I almost kept it back to ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 01 Sep 2011 at 09:19
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  Do something else
  
  I hardly ever write a review as I think each film is so individual and as a piece in itself hard to 'judge' it rocks your boat or it doesn't... and ... read more »
  
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- - DutchieToo
  - 18 reviews
  - 07 Aug 2011 at 00:28
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  Code Unknown - My Review
  
  Point Unknown. Watch the Piano Teacher or Funny Games instead. Haneke at a loss for something to do so he shows us a bunch of cryptic fragments which are ... read more »
  
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- - DaddyTank
  - 160 reviews
  - Ulan Bator
  - 15 Jul 2011 at 18:11
- - 2
  - 0
  Haneke’s early trademark
  
  Great film to watch and enjoy after a very busy week at work - this film grows and pulls together its narrative thread visually and through the diverse use of ... read more »
  
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- - Stephen
  - North Cornelly, South Wales
  - 16 Mar 2011 at 20:11
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  - 3
  Utterly rubbish
  
  I never write reviews since I believe films appreciation, as any other expression of art, are infinite and based on each person's experience, background and... read more »
  
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  - Surbiton
  - 24 Jan 2011 at 15:41
- - 2
  - 0
  Brain feast, as well a as visual one
  
  If you like a bit of philosophy, particularly re. trying to get an understanding of the key psychological themes running through modern western society, then ... read more »
  
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- - Affable
  - 10 reviews
  - Maidenhead
  - 24 Oct 2010 at 12:04
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- - 37
  - 8
  Quality film making!
  
  This is one of those films that leaves you feeling as though you have been winded. In the best possible way. Powerful direction that does not lay the narrative ... read more »
  
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- 299975
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  - immaterial
  - London
  - 20 Feb 2004 at 00:06
- - 15
  - 5
  Pretencious and unrewarding
  
  Some films are made for film critics. This is one of them. It lurches about in a disjointed way that the director would claim has some merit, but which only ... read more »
  
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- - Clerico
  - 84 reviews
  - Dunbar
  - 18 Jun 2005 at 09:56
- - 12
  - 2
  Inquireing French cinema
  
  A question about life as it is, or should that be as it is perceived. Do we experience reality or watch puppet theatre? Don?t we interpret others based on are... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - a soft armchair.
  - 06 Jun 2005 at 08:01
- - 11
  - 0
  Uninvolving
  
  Haneke is a fascinating director, but here his continuing interest in cinematic reality left me feeling distanced and uninvolved.
  
  Various interlinked... read more »
  
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- - robertconnor
  - 177 reviews
  - Gloucestershire
  - 26 Oct 2004 at 03:08
- - 7
  - 1
  Demanding
  
  In the interviews that Haneke gives in the extras provided with the DVD, he states that film (even documentary) will never show reality. It can only offer ... read more »
  
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- - Bobnessuk
  - 169 reviews
  - LONDON
  - 29 Nov 2004 at 09:18
- - 6
  - 0
  A wonderful dissection of urban society
  
  In the end, Haneke's fascinating mosaic of life as it was lived at the turn of the century in a fast-fracturing Paris may come down to very little more than... read more »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 26 Aug 2007 at 12:05
- - 6
  - 0
  Tedium ad infinitum
  
  I find Hanecke's films dull at the best of times, and can't believe what some of the critics and beard-strokers wrote about this one.
  
  The ... read more »
  
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- - Old8oy
  - 9 reviews
  - London
  - 28 Mar 2008 at 22:42
- - 6
  - 1
  What was the point?
  
  Why did anyone bother to make this film in the first place. A complete waste of time and talent.
  
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- - Sherpa
  - 21 reviews
  - Mold
  - 11 Mar 2008 at 19:00
- - 5
  - 0
  Typical Haneke.
  
  A vast, sustained and disturbing look at the implications of race, class and people's subtle roles in society prompted by one teenager's single action ... read more »
  
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- 275054
- - Japhf Ford
  - England.
  - 14 Aug 2006 at 14:35
- - 3
  - 0
  So So
  
  Well-meaning but ultimately wishy-washy comment about people getting along, and how poor communication and misunderstanding of others causes problems in society... read more »
  
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- 8907
- - Heather
  - Nottingham, England
  - 05 Jul 2004 at 15:15

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- Code Unknown
  
  German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of ...