We continue our series on actors and actresses by featuring a remarkable artist, whose filmography alone represents a significant contribution to the performing arts.
Winner of the Palme d'or, 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. they are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. After working in theater and television, Michael Haneke made a name for himself as a filmmaker in the 1990s. His productions explore a genealogy of ordinary evil in our societies, whether through television culture (Benny's Video), racism and repressed history (Caché), incommunicability (Code Unknown), social/family pressure and sexual neurosis (The Piano Teacher), consumer society (The Seventh Continent), religious dogma (The White Ribbon), and old age and psychological and physical deterioration (Amour). Eleven of Haneke's feature films were selected for the Cannes Film Festival, first for the Directors' Fortnight, then, starting with Funny Games, in competition. At Cannes, Haneke has won numerous awards: the Grand Prix, the Best Director Award, and the Palme d'or twice, for The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012). He is one of only ten directors to win the Palme d'or twice.
