The Seventh Continent (Der Siebente Kontinent) (1989)
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Three members of a middle-class family are followed as their lifestyle slowly disintegrates. Nothing spectacular happens: it's just the dreary un-ending grind of a go-nowhere existence. The film's final scene emulates Fassbinder, as the threesome bid auf wiedersehn to everyone and everything in a gaudy, grotesque manner. It goes without saying that Der 7. Kontinent is not for everyone's taste. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Jan 1, 1989 Wide
May 16, 2006
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Dieter Berner
Georg -
Leni Tanzer
Eva -
Udo Samel
Alexander -
Brigit Doll
Anna -
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A Kafkaesque nightmare scenario of dread and ambiguity rooted in the aimlessness of contemporary life.
Top CriticIntelligent, hard-hitting, nightmarish family drama that's based on a true story and told in a repetitive clinical style that reflects the subjects' anomie.
Haneke's impressive feature theatrical debut offers a chillingly bleak look at a family and its descent into barbarism as a result of alientaion and disengagement from life.
Confirms -- through its narrow portrait of life as unrelentingly bleak -- its own gloomy cynicism.
A stunning examination of the effects of emotional isolation and the inability to communicate in the modern age.
Family kills itself, director exploits it for dour ironies. More at 11.
Michael Haneke could be cinema's Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor.
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Foreign Titles
- Der siebente Kontinent (DE)
- Le Septième continent (FR)
