(indieWIRE/ 12.04.01) — There’s a moment in Michael Haneke‘s 1997 film, “Funny Games,” when a distraught mother blasts a shotgun shell into one of the two sadistic intruders who have kept her family ...

Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert), the title character in Michael Haneke’s most recent film, is not the sort of teacher who inspires her students and certainly not the sort who encourages them. Rather, ...

Isabelle Huppert delivers a taut, quietly explosive performance in "The Piano Teacher," Michael Haneke's harrowing cinematic portrait of a woman coming unhinged. Erika Kohut (Huppert) lives with her ...

Isabelle Huppert, the Oscar-nominated star of “Elle,” spoke candidly about her career choices and made the audience laugh with her self-deprecating humor at a masterclass held at the Lumière Film ...

What happened to Michael Haneke? The 81-year-old Austrian filmmaker who won an Oscar for “Amour” and flayed class privilege, technology, and voyeurism in French-language films like “Benny’s Video,” ...

Michael Haneke's films are audience provocations in disguise. At first glance, his movies make us think we've signed on for a regular European art film. We see upper-middle-class families and hear ...

There are two things that are certain in life. One is that death will come for every one of us. The other is that every film Michael Haneke makes will have a fair shot at the Cannes Palme d’Or. Amour, ...

[Editor’s Note: This interview was first published by indieWIRE on Dec. 4, 2001 and will be released in New York today by Kino International]. (indieWIRE/ 12.04.01) — There’s a moment in Michael ...

Read up on the latest The Piano Teacher News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Your comment has not been saved A repressed piano teacher's life unravels when she enters a ...

A martinet among instructors, Erika (Isabelle Huppert) humiliates her pupils and then schemes to help them win competitions. She plays the sexual sadist with her prize student Walter (Benoit Magimel) ...