IN SEARCH OF MICHAEL HANEKE: BOOK PRESENTATION
With Fatima Naqvi and Roy Grundmann
THURSDAY DEC 09, 06:30 PM
Now one of Europe’s pre-eminent filmmakers and known for his distressing and desolate style, Austrian director Michael Haneke attracted much attention in the 1990s with a string of iconoclastic films about dysfunctional families and Western social structures. According to The New York Times, he is “one of contemporary cinema’s most reviled and revered figures.” Fatima Naqvi and Roy Grundmann discussed some of his themes, introducing their new books Trügerische Vertrautheit (Deceptive Familiarity, Vienna: Synema, 2011) and A Companion to Michael Haneke (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
