Binoche is a favorite actress of mine and she does a good job with what she is given as do the rest of the cast. The cutting to and from the various ministories is effective. The problem is you don't get to know the motivations of the characters. Too bad because some of them are interesting, but only to a point. Actually the movie as a whole is quite unentertaining and to me overrated as well. A code better left unknown...and unseen.

When I finish watching a Haneke movie I feel like the dumbest person on the planet, but in the same time I feel that someone out there treats me with respect.

There's a discrepancy right from the get-go: the code is known. How else does Binoche get into her apartment?

I enjoy being challenged by movies, I really do. But I have a limit. Watching Code Unknown is like playing a video game that's so difficult it's not even fun. I needed something, ANYTHING to grab hold of here, but the movie gave me nothing. Trying to appreciate the movie on any level was like grasping at strings. Maybe I need to give it another shot? Maybe, but I doubt I will anytime soon.

DNF

The first 15-20 minutes (up to Binoche talking to the camera) are as close to perfection as Haneke has filmed so far, and it was kind of a shame that the rest of the movie didn't live up to that. That being said, it's still a great flick, and possibly Haneke's magnum opus as far as portraying his usual themes go.

Very challenging and experimental study of discrimination. Movie was a collection of moments of life which never started from the beginning and never conclude, but the context join them together in a head of viewer. It's also a collection of seemingly non-moving and bursting emotions scenes (mostly the first one). Juliette Binoche made a touching role.

For the first few scenes, it's utterly fantastic, a tragedy in slow motion. Elsewhere though it's a little fractured, a little too willing to jump to other characters, when it's Binoche's story that should be the centre. I feel the other scenes could be cut and it wouldn't impact on anything; it might even make the scene where Binoche chooses not to help someone in another apartment even more powerful.

Michael Haneke's ensemble piece is deliberately choppy in its editing. It strives for an episodic feel and emphasizes that we are only going to see snippets of the lives of these characters. The film's story blossoms from an act in the first scene --each of the film's storylines follows the participants of this first scene, eventually providing a portrait of life in Paris at the turn of the millenium, and demonstrating that life is series of choices concerning involvement and non-involvement.

The opening sequence and the subway scene are fantastic.

It really has some great scenes, but I felt most of them were just unnecesary, didn't have any real intention at all. Maybe I didn't understand at all Haneke's game, but anyway, I think I'm not that interested this time.

Not much to say, just another Haneke masterpiece.

I really need to watch more Haneke. Code Unknown is full of interesting stuff, with emotional and actual emigres bumping into each other in Paris. Every image loaded with symbolism and beautifully not at all tied together. Crash without the moral.

"This sliced and diced curio (think Manchevski's Before the Rain as directed by Godard) tackles entirely too much to ever really be about anything." - Ed Gonzalez

Strong opening and title drop, shame the stupid DVD menu spoils you on it.

Much better then the very similar 'Crash'. It's slow, and it can be very frustrating. Still, there's some great scenes, and the brooding ending (even if it doesn't go anywhere exactly) was expertly done. Juliette Binoche freaked me out in her film within a film more than anything in Cache or Funny Games.

Absolutely awful. Pointless. Trite. Etc.

It has a similar narrative structure of "71 Fragments...". Different persons, of various races and personalities, are connected after a tense situation... But unlike Iñarritu's crap, this is subtle and brilliant.

in a strange "code", but very interestin Film Haneke always have some good stuff