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pranama wrote:It´s a Czechoslovak-Yugoslavian (more exactly Slovak-Croatian) co-production, directed by Croatian D. Vukotic. Poetic story about creation of a realm of children, where they move from the whole world. Really nice film. Info in Czech: http://www.fdb.cz/filmy/26792-sedmy-kon ... inent.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098327/

The Seventh Continent is the first theatrical film written and directed by German-born auteur Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, Cache). This acute chronicle of a family degenerating into self-destruction is the first of a feature-film trilogy (concluding with Benny's Video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance) that centers on the intersections between media, alienation and violence.

Described by Haneke as a reflection on "the progressive emotional glaciation of Austria," The Seventh Continent focuses on George (Dieter Berner), a middling engineer, and his sardonic wife Anna (Birgit Doll). Unable to empathize with their daughter's compulsion for lying and uninterested in each other's emotional well-being, the couple turns their pedestrian way of life into a vortex of subjective malaise. And while a recurring ad for an Australian vacation stands as a signal of potential blissfulness, the couple's perfunctory melancholy eventually materialized into barbarism. More than a metaphor of hope and escape, The Seventh Continent is a meticulous dive into the postmodern disregard of affect - and a stark look at lives severed from feelings.

Phuzzy4242 wrote:The eMule link in BLT's first post is to a film by German director Michael Haneke and doesn't sound at all like the one on RFF's pages.

pranama wrote:OK, move it to [REQ], I found it on RFF, and it may be really interesting for FLM visitors. http://www.rarefilmfinder.com/showfilm.php?id=23634
Probably better under Yugoslavia.