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Code Unknown (2001)

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Reviews Counted:37

Fresh:26

Rotten:11

Average Rating:6.9/10

Consensus: Though challengingly cryptic at times, Code Unknown still manages to resonate.

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Nov 15, 2000 Limited

Synopsis: CODE UNKNOWN tracks a series of events that unfold in like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne (Juliette... CODE UNKNOWN tracks a series of events that unfold in like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne (Juliette Binoche) is an actress whose boyfriend Georges (Thierry Neuvic) photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean (Alexandre Hamidi), is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment because he has decided he no longer wants work on his father's farm in the country and he is moving to Paris. The lives of these characters haphazardly interconnect with those of a Romanian immigrant begging on the street, Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu), and a deaf teacher of West African descent, Amadou (Ona Lu Yenke). With many twists and turns that draw the viewer into webs of family, nationality, culture, economics, and politics, CODE UNKNOWN is a splendidly complex drama with a nonsequential chronology from Austrian director Michael Haneke. [More]

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Alexandre Hamidi, Luminita Gheorghiu

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Alexandre Hamidi, Luminita Gheorghiu, Ona Lu Yenke, Bob Nicolescu

Director: Michael Haneke

Director: Michael Haneke
Screenwriter: Michael Haneke
Producer: Alain Sarde, Marin Karmitz
Composer: Giba Goncalves

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
10/18/08
David Rooney
David Rooney
Variety
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Michael Haneke's only attempt to be emotionally salient.

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10/05/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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[Haneke's] socio-political condemnations assume an aggressively hectoring tone.

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09/07/06
Nick Schager
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12/06/05
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Emanuel Levy
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Colin Covert
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker
This is London

Packed with provocative ideas and fragments of provocative ideas.

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02/14/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Even if it's a bit 'foreign' and arty, it's also consistently gripping, thoughtful, powerful stuff, assembled in an unusual way that catches us off guard and never preaches.

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12/31/02
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

An interesting concept... [but] one doomed by a lack of characterization, Code Unknown remains a jumble of unknowable elements.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
08/26/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

A truly absorbing drama.

Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine | comment Comment
08/11/02
Jason Clark
Jason Clark
Matinee Magazine

This French-language film is fiercely intellectual and thoughtful.

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07/09/02
Steve Tilley
Steve Tilley
Jam! Movies

At the center of the film -- the real reason it was made -- is Binoche, one of the genuinely radiant presences in movies today.

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06/27/02
Michael Wilmington
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06/15/02
Reel.com

Awash in ravishing images ... that will haunt you long after you leave the theater.

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06/10/02
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

Tackles contemporary cosmopolitan ennui with unfailing sensitivity and perceptiveness, and that more than makes its stories worth knowing.

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06/07/02
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Haneke has a sure way with actors -- allowing them to seem to be living rather than acting their roles -- tat matches his ability to capture the rhythms and routines of everyday life with a graceful, unstudied ease.

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06/07/02
Kevin Thomas
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Thankfully a step backward from the moral abyss represented in Funny Games.

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06/06/02
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