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71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyIntellectually demanding and non-commercial film should be embraced in the festival and arthouse circuits by film students and viewers interested in postmodern, deconstructionist cinema. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisAn icy-cool study of violence both mediated and horribly real. |
| User ReviewPrivate U71 scenes [fragments] featuring unconnected characters leading to their involvement in a senseless shooting spree. Many of the scenes are, or include, news reports. These fragments are all made up of every day occurrences, to make them ordinary and "recognisable". The point of the film is that despite watching and listening to people and their activities all the time we don't "understand" them. We talk all of the time but never really communicate. Haneke doesn't give any reasons for the characters actions through out the film leaving us with purely our own theories and beliefs from what we observe. The final film of the "glaciation trilogy" is meticulously thought out and well executed. Perfect film making from this excellent writer/director. |
| User ReviewJohn SThis film is an amazing display of Haneke's impeccable ability to build tension and involve the audience into the atmosphere of the film, at times, it feels like you are part of the script, part of every scene. It's simply magical. Haneke almost makes you feel like your the bad guy. And I loved it! All hail Haneke!! |
| User ReviewJim WClassical Haneke, reflective documental, precisely dramaticalization and mystically convincing. |
| User ReviewJordon JOne of Haneke's most underrated pieces, despite this '71 Fragments' is undeniably one of his greatest achievements. This film is unforgiving, confrontational and poetically mundane. The film's formula is that of repetition as form of insight into the gruelling daily activities of western civilisation. Haneke explores the random or perhaps the mediated with themes of class divide and racial tension amidst a turbulent backdrop of political unrest, which seems even more evident today as it did back then. Black frames intercut the titular '71 Fragments', there is no music, it is a cold meditation on the psychological damage caused by government control and social tension. Haneke asserts a degree of intelligence from the viewer, so for those who are prepared to think '71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance' is rewarding and essential viewing. |
| User ReviewEdgar CCombining the abrupt editing of Der Siebente Kontinent (1989) with Todd Haynes' narrative structure in the disturbing Poison (1991), we take a layered trip once more into the mass media surroundings of the middle class and the undeniable implications it executes in cotidianity. Simultaneous to Tarantino's roller-coaster of intertwining stories, this is a challenging masterpiece that divides life itself into little fragments where everything is mathematically interrelated in an endless set of possibilities while questioning the futility of violence. 97/100 |
| User ReviewFranck DPremier film de Haneke vu. Jamais descotché depuis ... |
| User Reviewa ai sat there with my mouth hanging open the whole way through. awe inspiring. |