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This is a private (from time to time) blog for my cinematic obsessions and scintillating (one-sided) reflections about movies. Feel yourself at home!

07 februarie 2012

„Uşile, uşile...” (5)

Screenshot from Der Siebente Kontinent (dir. Michael Haneke/1989)

Der Siebente Kontinent is the ultimate anthitesis of a „feel good movie”. Calling it dark and depressing would be the understatement of the decade. It excedees all levels of bleak. I was reminded of Bresson's cropped framing during the film and then found Bresson's own statement on this Haneke debut: „Not beautiful photography, not beautiful pictures, but rather necessary pictures, necessary photography”.