50th Anniversary Tribute to Michael Haneke. Double Feature: CACHÉ, 2005, 20th Anniversary! BENNY’S VIDEO, 1992 September 30, 2012

Sunday, September 30 – 7:30 PM
Co- presented by the French Film & TV office, French Embassy Los Angeles and Les Films du Losange’s 50th Anniversary Tribute to Michael Haneke.
Double Feature: CACHÉ, 2005, Sony Pictures Classics, 117 min. TV host Daniel Auteuil's already strained marriage to Juliette Binoche gets even more tense when they start receiving surveillance tapes revealing that someone is recording their private lives. Auteuil's investigation into the source of the videos leads him on a troubling journey into his own past - and, in ace director Michael Haneke's hands, into the nature of denial in all its forms. A chilling, one-of-a-kind masterpiece. In French with English subtitles.
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20th Anniversary! BENNY’S VIDEO, 1992, Wega Film, 105 min. Dir. Michael Haneke. Obsessed with recording mundane street life with his video camera, 14-year-old Benny ends up videotaping himself murdering a girlfriend. The quiet teen runs the tape for his stunned parents, who choose to conceal his crime. In German with English subtitles. Discussion between films with director Michael Haneke.
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