Michael Haneke

Haneke's exploration of willful ignorance, guilt, and history takes hold, and doesn't quite let go when the lights come up.

Haneke's noodlings on the nature of evil...reach a sort of culmination in The White Ribbon, 2009 Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

Haneke has hit upon the most accessible, most universally understood experiential vehicle to explore his career-defining obsession with nihilism, or he has made his most emotionally sensitive film yet, a true love story.