A middle-class family arrive at their lake house for a vacation, but before long, two eerily polite young men, Peter and Paul, appear on their doorstep. What begins as an awkward interaction soon spirals into a home invasion when the boys take the... Read More
Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) live in quiet domesticity in their Paris flat. One day, Anne suffers a stroke that leaves her partially paralysed. Georges, devoted and stoic, becomes her primary caregiver. As Anne’s health deteriorates... Read More
Ambitious and complex, Code Unknown is a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world. Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, single-take vignettes focusing on characters linked to one seemingly... Read More
Ageing Calais construction magnate Georges Laurent (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has passed the reins of the family business to daughter Anne (Isabelle Huppert). However, a series of increasingly sinister events conspire to unravel the wealthy clan’s cosseted existence. A coolly observed study... Read More
An ageing schoolteacher recounts the disturbing events that took place in the rural Protestant community of his youth; a doctor is injured in a tripwire accident, a farmer’s wife dies in a sawmill mishap, a boy is tied up and... Read More
Anne (Isabelle Huppert) has travelled with her husband Georges and their children to their country home, seeking refuge from an unspecified catastrophe. When they arrive, they find the house already occupied by menacing strangers. Following a violent incident, Anne and her children are... Read More
Benny (Arno Frisch), a teenager from a comfortable Viennese family, is obsessed with video cameras and violent imagery. He spends much of his time alone in his room, recording and watching disturbing videos. Benny’s detachment from reality deepens when he... Read More
The bourgeois complacency of a Parisian family is severely tested when surreptitiously recorded videos of their lives begin arriving anonymously to their well-appointed home. Anne (Juliette Binoche) senses Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is concealing something, though he denies knowledge of the... Read More
Erika Khout (Isabelle Huppert) is a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Now in her late thirties and living a hermetic, love-hate existence with a tyrannical mother (Annie Giradot), Erika’s sex life has been reduced to voyeurism and masochistic diversions. Educated... Read More
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