“Michael Haneke was very, very important to me growing up, especially The Piano Teacher and Caché, but his first films, they just call it the Trilogy here, but I think he called it in one interview the Emotional Glaciation Trilogy, and I think he regretted saying that, so that's probably why it doesn't say it here. Haneke is always talking about Bresson being his favorite filmmaker and like the only, the only filmmaker he really cares about, and, you really see that in these films, which are very Bressonian. Like they're kind of like, you know, the actors are basically functioning as models. The Seventh Continent is one of the most perfect films ever made and very upsetting. Benny's Video is a great film about Nazi youth, and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, is it is, you know, a great kind of like trial run for what he ended up doing with Code Unknown.”
