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  Review by just2good ★★★½ 7

  VERY early TV Haneke, had to see it in not the best quality because these are impossible to find. Janus or somebody needs to aecure the rights to these and do a boxset with Criterion. Anyways, differwnt from later Haneke works in many ways (lots of cutaways, heavy use of music) while also showing the birth of a lot of his later techniques. Some themes of cerain scenes were even explored in later favorites like Code Unknown. It feels like an arthouse presentation with confident camera movement - some stunning shots - absolutely mindblowing for a random 1976 TV filn. An adaptation, the film is a rather interesting character study with the exploration of relationships. Narration was useful at some…

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  Review by Ronan Doyle ★★★★ 5

  The December Project: Film #58

  It was 2009 when I first saw a film by Michael Haneke, a director I'd at that point not heard of. It was The White Ribbon, and when the lights came up I was suddenly reminded that I was sitting in a cinema. The great auteur's famously reserved aesthetic and stark thematic material hit me like a train, and immediately I wanted to see more, I needed to see more. Three years down the line, having seen every feature to Haneke's name and found him to be among the greatest cinematic artists that ever there were, I come at last to his television films. Despite having access to several of these for some time now,…

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  Review by Rodolfo de la Torre 4

  How have people been able to access this movie without illegal means?

  Is it only available for Austrians and Germans or Europeans?

  Would really like to either rent or purchase or have the opportunity to view it, if anyone has any pointers about it.

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  Review by Críticos.com.br ★★★★

  O vapor do café - ou perder-se para não mais se encontrar

  Em certa oportunidade, quando perguntado a respeito de O castelo (Das Schloß, 1997), sua adaptação do livro incompleto de Franz Kafka para a televisão austríaca, Michael Haneke preocupou-se em estabelecer uma clara distinção entre releituras televisivas e cinematográficas. Enquanto estas, segundo ele, reimaginariam com maior liberdade a fonte inspiradora, aquelas, objetivando atrair outros leitores, obrigatoriamente se reportariam ao “original”. Nesse sentido, um primeiro olhar percebe, em Três caminhos para o lago (Drei Wege zum See, 1976) - versão para a rede alemã SWR do conto homônimo de Ingeborg Bachmann -, alguns vestígios de “fidelidade”: a começar pelo narrador observador, manifesto desde o momento inicial. Uma interpretação mais arrojada,…

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  Review by Luiz Baez ★★★★

  Em certa oportunidade, quando perguntado a respeito de O castelo (Das Schloß, 1997), sua adaptação do livro incompleto de Franz Kafka para a televisão austríaca, Michael Haneke preocupou-se em estabelecer uma clara distinção entre releituras televisivas e cinematográficas. Enquanto estas, segundo ele, reimaginariam com maior liberdade a fonte inspiradora, aquelas, objetivando atrair outros leitores, obrigatoriamente se reportariam ao “original”. Nesse sentido, um primeiro olhar percebe, em Três caminhos para o lago (Drei Wege zum See, 1976) - versão para a rede alemã SWR do conto homônimo de Ingeborg Bachmann -, alguns vestígios de “fidelidade”: a começar pelo narrador observador, manifesto desde o momento inicial. Uma interpretação mais arrojada, por sua vez, buscaria no segundo filme de Haneke alguns indícios de…

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  Review by Sven Roth ★★★

  "Listen: first of all, usually nothing happens.
  And even so, a lot of things happened for you. I'm very happy about that, only... the real things almost never happen.
  Or they happen too late."

  Finally time to delve deeply into Haneke's filmography.

  I can't really say that I fully enjoyed this early television film from him. It definitely has its moments.
  And I can say for sure that I really liked the directing.
  But the story wasn't really something I could get myself interested in enough.

  I guess that's a good start, and I can't wait too see more of his work.