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most intelligent filmmaking of the year.
How did Germany, inarguably the most intellectually sophisticated of European countries, pre-WWI, become the home of the Nazi juggernaut?
Haneke trains his microscope on a small German town reeling from a series of inexplicable, seemingly insolvable, and savage crimes. In doing so, he exposes the feudal and highly religious society for its hypocrisy, though the working class fares little better than the leadership in his tortured saga.
The acting is nothing short of miraculous: from the youngest child to the paterfamilias, this is astonishing ensemble playing, far too rare in today's cinema. I left the cinema angered at the director, feeling manipulated and pushed but, after some reflection, I realized the cleverness and the skill with which I was beaten about the head.
This is a film with a level of skill few modern directors can match--- one must look backward to Bresson and Dreyer to find such effortlessness and simplicity (Kiarastomi, a director Haneke has widely praised, is a more modern example though the "foreignness" of his subjects lead me to exclude him, ultimately).
Not Germany but Berlin.
fds
I meant that the sophisticate culture was not in germany but in Berlin.
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Sabordeur d´Americain.
Before the WWII Berlin WAS the town.
one, big argument!
So Berlin WAS the center, of artistry.
Sometimes, Patrick......
That in the pre war time Berlin was the intellectual artistic center not only of Germany but of Europe.
corrected me that Berlin was, as if by saying the country, I was wrong.
I am pointing out that you're being silly. The capitals of all European countries are their national cultural centers.
wasn't hard to see that coming.
pile on, perhaps you'd care to address whether these places seem cultural backwaters, whether they can be discounted in an appreciation of German music?
"Let's discuss" = It's time to demonstrate my win-at-any-cost-superiority over these quipsters once again.
Edits: 03/16/10
Patrick's response "silly" sure is a flame, isn't it?
Lighten up, my man. Life is short and so is your fuse.
"Lighten up" = ouch, that's my pomposity, man.
Indeed!
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