Michael Haneke Season — Code Unknown — Meet from 5:30, Film at 6:20

We are going to see Michael Haneke's 2000 film, Code Unknown.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 5:30 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film we will stop for a while to talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.

ABOUT THE FILM

This is the first film in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Season on 35mm.
There will be an introduction by Cinema Rediscovered Founder Mark Cosgrove.

"A youth tosses a wrapper into the lap of a Romanian woman begging in Paris… Haneke’s exploration of the various consequences of this thoughtless act leads into the lives of a range of characters, mostly unconnected save that their different experiences touch on the lies, inequalities, injustices and contradictions of contemporary Western Europe. Fragmented, philosophically rigorous, it is nevertheless lucid, dramatically compelling and deeply affecting."
— BFI Summary

"One of the world’s most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Oscar®–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with devastating precision and artistry.

"His drama Code Unknown, the first of his many films made in France, may be his most inspired work. Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, single-take vignettes focusing on characters connected to one seemingly minor incident on a Paris street, Haneke’s film - with an outstanding international cast headlined by Juliette Binoche - is a revelatory examination of racial inequality and the failure of communication in an increasingly diverse modern landscape."
— Watershed summary