The National Cinema Museum pays tribute to Michael Haneke

The National Cinema Museum pays tribute to the Austrian author Michael Haneke with a dedicated retrospective in program at the Cinema Massimo from 5 to 23 February 2010.   An original author, with the unsettling extreme violence of his films and the surprising originality of the stories he tells, Haneke uses real situations of illness, events that evoke something unique, individual and precise and which awaken what is common.  In his later works, the director weaves the fate of the characters with metaphors about the end of the world, things that are final.  His position as a skeptical and desperate man, compared to joy and optimism, along with his work with opposition, make him a true master of denial, an author with an intellectual film career that never leaves one indifferent.

The retrospective I confini della violenza/The borders of violence. Tribute to Michael Haneke, is a project realized by the National Cinema Museum in collaboration with Les Films du Losange, BIM Distribution and Lucky Red.