THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989)

Cast

Plot

Easily one of the most provocative, oblique, and fascinating directors of contemporary European cinema, Michael Haneke's debut feature remains a masterpiece of existentialism and eerie violence. A family of three, a married couple and their daughter, go about their prosaic lives in a mechanical fashion; Haneke presents their lives as barely more than a series of rote mannerisms; even sex becomes a passive activity.