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The Seventh Continent

1989
Drama
1h 44m
Georg and his wife Anna realize how monotonous and isolated their life is when their daughter Eva, in a desperate attempt to get attention, suddenly pretends to be blind (imdb)
Directed by:
Michael Haneke Michael Haneke
Written by:
Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Johanna Teicht
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Starring:
Udo Samel Dieter Berner Leni Tanzer Silvia Fenz Robert Dietl Birgit Doll
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Genre:
Drama
AKA:
Siebente Kontinent, Der
Country:
Austria
Languages:
English, French, German
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The Seventh Continent

1989
Drama
1h 44m
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peaceanarchyPeaceAnarchy
Rated 12 May 2017
88
90th
I don't think I've ever noticed the Bresson influence on Haneke before, but it was very apparent here. The content, is not very Bresson like, which makes for an interesting experience seeing the style used for something much more forceful and shocking. I quite enjoyed its methodical deconstruction of social routine, and the characters, even though they are mostly representations, still shone through under the constraints of both social expectations and filmic stylistic demands.
Rated 12 May 2017
judo_koalaJudo Koala
Rated 20 Jun 2020
85
90th
The moment you realize where the film is heading is the moment Haneke has you by the innards and simply won't let go. A slow death march towards finality that's palpable in a way few films achieve; truly, Haneke must be thought of as one of cinema's greatest horror directors. Because there is nothing to be found here but pure, unmitigated horror, lurching towards the end of a cliff and dragging us down with it, a Bressonian formalism that trades asceticism for nihilism. Haunting, bleak stuff.
Rated 20 Jun 2020
gursuGursu
Rated 09 Jun 2008
3
38th
A film worth watching. Suspenseful and meaningful. But I gave it a low score anyway because films from this period of Haneke (I mean The Seventh Continent, Benny's video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance) somehow don't really capture me at a gut level. I don't understand why (Funny Games totally captured me, for instance). Maybe because I watched these three on DVD, maybe because I wasn't in the mood (i.e. emotionally unavailable) at the time I watched them.
Rated 09 Jun 2008
futurememoryfuturememory
Rated 18 Jun 2012
92
96th
This is the mind-ninja of films. I had heard that Haneke's debut was chilling and disturbing, but while I was watching it, I was completely unaffected. Days later, the images of this film kept resurfacing to haunt me. I'd involuntarily shudder thinking recalling the details of what I'd seen. The repetitive monotony of everyday living taken to extremes. Amazing.
Rated 18 Jun 2012
sproostsproost
Rated 26 Sep 2023
85
92nd
This unbelievably creepy film will probably stay with me forever. Minor issue: i was a little put off by the true-story-text-blurp at the end - i think Haneke made an artistic own goal there, bc ending on the white noise on tv would have been a marvelous and fitting away to go out. I don't care that this is a true story, we know these things happen and we know we can't ever really understand them. Let that be it
Rated 26 Sep 2023
sellissellis
Rated 07 Aug 2009
95
97th
Almost perfect.
Rated 07 Aug 2009
anilscnanilscn
Rated 11 Oct 2023
77
92nd
son 15 dk ikonik olmuş ama geri kalan bir film olsa haneke'nin en kötü işi olurdu. keşke son 15dk'da yaşananların güzel bir altyapısı olsaymış. yine de efsane finish için fav listeme aldım. ayrıca balıklardan ne istediniz aq
Rated 11 Oct 2023
valenzettiValenzetti
Rated 22 Dec 2010
89
84th
Some surprisingly intimate scenes, but Haneke certainly didn't find his voice along the way. It's here at the start. And now I really wish he had made a Talking Heads music video back in the day.
Rated 22 Dec 2010
spokowapSpokoWap
Rated 20 Sep 2011
85
92nd
Poczatek leniwy, ale po zakonczeniu na dlugie godziny pozostawil mnie w ponurym nastroju. Mocna rzecz.
Rated 20 Sep 2011
neonmanNeonman
Rated 25 Aug 2010
96
98th
A simple and incredible film on the suffocating stoicism and failed liberation of a supposedly ordinary middle-class family. I loved the creepy minimalism of this family's day-to-day business, but I thought "I need something after all this casualness to make this film a masterpiece". What I got was one of the greatest, most punk third acts I've ever seen in a movie.
Rated 25 Aug 2010
whatisitiseewhatisitisee
Rated 18 Apr 2014
90
96th
There are movies that make you think and then there are movies that uncompromisingly force you to. this is the latter. there's a sense of detachment that might be mistaken for attempted objectivity but is just the opposite. beautiful and mesmerizing work from haneke
Rated 18 Apr 2014
pratchett3Pratchett3
Rated 29 Dec 2017
9
87th
I wasn't sold on this until the end
Rated 29 Dec 2017
bownBown
Rated 31 Oct 2009
86
80th
Takes a while to get to where it's going, but ends up being worth it. Turned out to be a pretty decent movie to watch on Halloween, as it's almost poignantly horrifying.
Rated 31 Oct 2009
iconoclastIconoclast
Rated 21 Nov 2010
96
99th
Haneke constructs the most unapologetically bleak film ever made simply by focusing on the pointless banality of everyday life itself and what it does to a family.
Rated 21 Nov 2010
kevinjosephkevinjoseph
Rated 22 Nov 2010
74
85th
By far one of the most draining movie I've seen. Goddammit, nihilism, why you gotta be like that.
Rated 22 Nov 2010
dumptruk4lifDumptruk4Lif
Rated 12 Nov 2020
87
65th
A movie where the suppression of information and context only adds to the chilling feeling of unease throughout. The deliberately slow pacing and its focus on the irrelevant minutia of a suffocating culture of consumerism, the sudden edits from scene to scene, and it all eventually carrying over into the final third feels like being on a broken rollercoaster that you can't get off of that is going to crash at the end, but thinking there's still a chance it won't.
Rated 12 Nov 2020
bolivarbolivar
Rated 20 Apr 2012
70
54th
stylistically potent, depressing movie. In the end there isnt quite enough content for me. very haneke-y.
Rated 20 Apr 2012
eveeluneveelun
Rated 19 Feb 2007
73
52nd
An interesting feature that takes a while to get started, but the second half is worth it. There's some great, almost Bressonian visual storytelling and an effective portrayal of the bleakness of existence, but the pacing needs work and the film lags in places.
Rated 19 Feb 2007
flipwhitmanFlipWhitman
Rated 18 Jan 2014
85
81st
Haneke's films usually punch me in the stomach. This one eviscerated me.
Rated 18 Jan 2014
damildamil
Rated 25 Aug 2012
50
25th
I didn't like this one too much. Almost the entirety of the film was essentially just build-up. And when we finally got to the climactic scene, I was left pretty underwhelmed. One of the final sequences was quite mesmerising, I'll admit. It did become a lot better in my mind when I remembered it was based on true events too. But yeah, I understood what Haneke was trying to say with the film and all that. It just wasn't all that interesting and nowhere near the first time I've heard it.
Rated 25 Aug 2012
peyrinpeyrin
Rated 10 Jul 2020
60
32nd
Style is great, but the final product is just okay. Definitely has me more intrigued about the filmography.
Rated 10 Jul 2020
joojooJooJoo
Rated 19 May 2010
5
80th
Chilling.
Rated 19 May 2010
karlsonkarlson
Rated 25 Sep 2023
80
77th
So incredibly well made that the cinematography transcends the story. If it had ended with an actual emigration to Australia I still would've given it 80 points. But this statement is open to debate : )
Rated 25 Sep 2023
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 24 May 2023
83
69th
A brutal, very Haneke-ian rail against yuppies and consumerism, combined with a very close, very exacting examination of the mundanity of day-to-day existence and the quiet existential terror and horror this can engender – has echoes of JEANNE DIELMAN, but makes its point in a clearer (and even more savage) fashion; knowing that the tedium of the first two acts leads to the brilliantly queasy (and even mordantly amusing) final act would make a second viewing richer.
Rated 24 May 2023
chengmingchengming
Rated 12 May 2016
90
97th
Wow. I'm not sure this world needs more bleak movies, but if you make them, make them masterfully like this.
Rated 12 May 2016
emtiltemtilt
Rated 09 Feb 2008
80
82nd
I think the pacing is a little off, but other than that I was impressed by this film.
Rated 09 Feb 2008
nepetaNepeta
Rated 10 Jan 2013
95
96th
An overwhelmingly visceral film on humanity's tendency to idealise things, and a warning about placing so much credence in the hopeful images that religion (the young kid prays every night) or the media (we see an image of the Australian beach on an advertising poster) can give us that we overlook the good in life - notice how the daughter's drawings, the family's music collection and photograph albums are all destroyed - and rush headlong for the perfect image our minds are convinced is real.
Rated 10 Jan 2013
toddsaltertoddsalter
Rated 25 Feb 2021
89
59th
Is this any better than Legally Blonde if the frustration level was the same? Or do I make an exception because it was intentional in this case? Maybe I'm just not a Haneke person. But I'm not giving up on him yet.
Rated 25 Feb 2021
selcukburcakselcukburcak
Rated 27 Jul 2019
65
42nd
izlediğim ilk ve en az beğendiğim haneke filmi. iyi ki bırakmamışım peşini..
Rated 27 Jul 2019
helfen419helfen419
Rated 25 Sep 2010
43
9th
This story could have effectively been told in about 25 minutes.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
zoranZoran
Rated 05 Aug 2020
83
81st
Meaningless of life and boredom brought the final consequences. Very sad movie.
Rated 05 Aug 2020
djrossdjross
Rated 19 Apr 2011
55
53rd
For all the effort expended in showing the individual acts that added up to the totality, one thing is avoided: the planning. Why? Was it a lack of artistic imagination, an attempt to avoid an unconvincing depiction of this kind of discussion? Or might it have been that the director could not think of a way to include such scenes without showing more of the actual circumstances than he was really interested in exploring? In either case, the result is less than it might have been.
Rated 19 Apr 2011
davidjohnsonDavidJohnson
Rated 03 Sep 2011
87
86th
This is Michael Haneke's first feature film, and his 'objective' style is all over it. There is barely any plot, but rather a seemingly ordinary family doing mundane things with little dialogue, but for some reason it's really interesting. There is quite a lot to take away from this film. It also has a classic Haneke bleak ending.
Rated 03 Sep 2011
cat9mancat9man
Rated 27 Jun 2011
53
13th
Hey Georg - Anna - get over it. Director doesn't prove his case. It's a downer.
Rated 27 Jun 2011
simsorutsimsorut
Rated 23 Aug 2020
100
99th
YES!
Rated 23 Aug 2020
yagozkyagozk
Rated 02 Aug 2020
80
56th
What the fuck...
Rated 02 Aug 2020
glm01glm01
Rated 02 Oct 2013
82
71st
81.500
Rated 02 Oct 2013
moraesfelipemoraesfelipe
Rated 26 Jul 2012
65
61st
With his first feature for cinema, Haneke achieves immense levels of tension by just hiding true violence and showing what could be mistaken by dull everyday life events -- but it's actually these details that make this so disturbingly cold and gripping.
Rated 26 Jul 2012
frankhowleyFrankHowley
Rated 05 Jun 2010
65
41st
One of the most mundane films I've seen, although that's exactly the point. It all builds to a powerful third act. It's pretty much what I expected from Haneke.
Rated 05 Jun 2010
barthalenBarthalen
Rated 20 Nov 2009
73
64th
Partly frustrating, since understanding the characters' actions hinges on knowing more about them but their motivations are left unclear. The distant and impersonal way of filming is perfect for conveying a boring, lifeless routine. The pacing could be better, though I enjoyed the repetitive nature of the first 2/3rds.
Rated 20 Nov 2009
martintellerMartinTeller
Rated 11 Nov 2007
78
63rd
Again Haneke shows us an average bourgeois family being shaken to its core. Except this time, it's self-inflicted. It's very unsettling, and the tedium of the first hour pays off with the shattering events that follow it. I appreciate what Haneke is getting at, and his work is powerful, but one thing did bother me. It's based on a true story, and by Haneke's own admission, there were real reasons for what happened. But he shrugs them off as unimportant and uses the story for his own agenda.
Rated 11 Nov 2007
dardandardan
Rated 02 Sep 2015
70
71st
The characters didn't convince me to have the right disposition required to do what they ended up doing, nor is the realization of their monotonous and isolated lives strong enough to legitimize it.
Rated 02 Sep 2015
judge_holdenJudge Holden
Rated 02 Jan 2012
5
69th
The Seventh Continent depicts its horrific conclusion without providing any reasons or explanations. Needless to say, it's quite unsettling, but I'm not sure if it's all that powerful. Like most of Haneke's work, it's original and technically impressive but very manipulative and patronizing.
Rated 02 Jan 2012
parcalihamparcaliham
Rated 19 May 2013
80
64th
5 Mart 2013, istanbul modern & Haneke, modernite elestirisini cok basit bir fikir ile, bir siradan bir burjuva ailesinin maddi-manevi yikimi ile seyirciye sunuyor. Filmin en buyuk artisi da bu basit fikri.
Rated 19 May 2013
mrcimrci
Rated 11 Oct 2020
10
3rd
I don't mind slow paced, terrifying movies, but this one was just boring and thus painful to watch.
Rated 11 Oct 2020
slantmagSlantMag
Rated 01 Dec 2010
20
41st
"Michael Haneke could be cinema's Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor." - Fernando F. Croce
Rated 01 Dec 2010
vandelay1Vandelay1
Rated 16 Jun 2022
70
76th
good movie
Rated 16 Jun 2022
doyler29doyler29
Rated 09 Feb 2024
80
68th
The tone of this film never shifts from a detached depiction of physical events. We don't even see any faces for the first 40 minutes. Michael Haneke effectively depicts a seemingly prosperous existence where there's absolutely nothing there. There's a quite, depressing brilliance at work here.
Rated 09 Feb 2024
stevekimesstevekimes
Rated 13 Aug 2012
90
88th
We don't know what is happening until deep in the film. One of Heneke's best.
Rated 13 Aug 2012
tjekhovTjekhov
Rated 01 Nov 2010
60
54th
Some pretty raw talent - the first hour is aggressive, and a bit too eager to cue us in the right direction, but the ending is classic Haneke - and thank god for that.
Rated 01 Nov 2010
feublofeublo
Rated 18 Jul 2020
90
90th
A force derived from it's minimalist fragments. Haneke well known for his manipulation, decisively leads us to a horrifying truth. The mundane routine of life, in itself, may have personal dilemmas that are quite hollow to the soul. With this realization comes social detachment, removing modern and material entities to pursue a cynical desire...may look just as emotionless as the soul trembles with enlightenment.
Rated 18 Jul 2020
corleoneCorleone
Rated 14 Jun 2011
50
34th
too subtle to enjoy
Rated 14 Jun 2011
graveyardtangraveyardtan
Rated 17 May 2010
95
93rd
Possibly one the most disturbing film I've ever seen, especially going in not knowing anything about the story. Haneke once again forces viewers to confront themselves, and pulls no punches doing it.
Rated 17 May 2010
armonicaArmonica
Rated 27 Jan 2022
95
95th
I was totally fucked up :(
Rated 27 Jan 2022
jazzalohaJazzaloha
Rated 04 Apr 2010
75
86th
Can living a comfortable middle class lives in modern society be a terrible thing? That's what this well-made film seems to be asking as depicts a family that behaves in puzzling way. Haneke, to his credit, does not provide any answers. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant's *Elephant*.
Rated 04 Apr 2010
paulofilmopaulofilmo
Rated 04 Jul 2020
73
85th
Haneke is the hero i don't need, but deserve
Rated 04 Jul 2020

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