117 mins | France-Germany-Romania 2000 | Subtitles Director: Michael Haneke Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic and Josef Bierbichler On a busy Paris street, a youth scornfully tosses a crumpled paper bag into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond which, for an instant, links several very different characters: actress Anne (Juliette Binoche); her war photographer boyfriend Georges; his farmer father and younger brother Jean, who, contrary to his father’s wishes, has no interest in inheriting the farm; Amandou, a music teacher for deaf-mute children; and his family who originate from Africa; and Romanian immigrant Maria. Haneke’s ambitious, complex and powerful CODE UNKNOWN is a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people, class, race and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world. “One of the most uncompromisingly difficult and challenging of the year.” The Guardian
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