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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingGloomy
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Plot:
- PsychologicalCouple RelationsParents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsDysfunctional FamilyFamily in CrisisFamily LifeMidlife Crisis more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 80s
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Place:
- School
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Seventh Continent, 1989
German, French, English
Austria
Profile of The Seventh Continent
The Seventh Continent can be described as disturbing, bleak, and gloomy. The plot revolves around a midlife crisis, a family in crisis, and a dysfunctional family. The main genres are drama and foreign. In approach, The Seventh Continent is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, at a school. The Seventh Continent takes place in the 1980s. It is originally a true story.
Summary of The Seventh Continent
Easily one of the most provocative, oblique, and fascinating directors of contemporary European cinema, Michael Haneke's debut feature, The Seventh Continent, remains a masterpiece of existentialism and eerie violence. A married couple and their daughter go about their prosaic lives in a mechanical fashion; Haneke presents their lives as barely more than a series of rote mannerisms--even sex becomes a passive activity. On the surface, everything seems perfectly normal, but the film hints at a lurking malaise: the mother breaks, inexplicably, into tears as they drive through a carwash, the daughter feigns blindness at school, and then, suddenly, without warning, the family performs a drastic act of violence.
Details
| Language: | German, French, English |
| Country: | Austria |
| Release date: | 26 March 1990 |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
Cast and Crew
as Georg
as Anna
as Alexander
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