Code Unknown (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic & Alexandre Hamidi | |
Directed by | Michael Haneke | |
Edited by | Andreas Prochaska | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Haneke | |
Produced by | Alain Sarde & Marin Karmitz | |
Director of Photography: | Jürgen Jürges |
Entertainment Reviews:
Despite the film's Bressonian rigours, its emotional force should finally give the lie to Haneke's reputation as a coldly academic film-maker.
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Time Out
Rating: 8/10 --
It's a great entry point to his filmography, serving as a good example of Haneke's visual and thematic style.
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PopMatters
Rating: 4/5 --
A chilling picture of urban disillusionment, Code Unknown's strength is its insistence that, to be realistic, it cannot give easy answers.
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Total Film
The violence, in short, remains unseen, but that makes it no easier to bear; what lurks and wails behind a wall is, for Haneke, the most reliable wellspring of dread.
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New Yorker
A procession of long virtuoso takes that typically begin and end in the middle of actions or sentences, constituting not only an interactive jigsaw puzzle but a thrilling narrative experiment.
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Chicago Reader
Code Unknown is an unusual example of a movie that is socially aware, but that is thankfully equally aware of how tiresome moralising and preaching can be.
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Film4
All this unrelenting bleakness would be fine if it went someplace interesting, but the film's themes never coalesce into anything beyond basic existential angst.
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Variety
Product Description:
CODE UNKNOWN tracks a series of events that unfold in like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne (Juliette Binoche) is an actress whose boyfriend Georges (Thierry Neuvic) photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean (Alexandre Hamidi), is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment because he has decided he no longer wants work on his father's farm in the country and he is moving to Paris. The lives of these characters haphazardly interconnect with those of a Romanian immigrant begging on the street, Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu), and a deaf teacher of West African descent, Amadou (Ona Lu Yenke). With many twists and turns that draw the viewer into webs of family, nationality, culture, economics, and politics, CODE UNKNOWN is a splendidly complex drama with a nonsequential chronology from Austrian director Michael Haneke.
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- Sales Rank: 65,249
- UPC: 715515161015
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