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- 2005
- Not Rated
- Kino International
- 1 h 40 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Kino International
- 1 h 40 m
Summary 71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Directed By: Michael Haneke
Written By: Michael Haneke
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Kino International
- 1 h 40 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Kino International
- 1 h 40 m
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
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6.9
Summary 71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Directed By: Michael Haneke
Written By: Michael Haneke
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
71
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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An eliptical puzzle that comes together beautifully in the last five minutes. Challenging, disturbing and at times brilliant. [21 Oct 1994]
The trilogy's conclusion, 71 Fragments, doesn't quite fit the glaciation theme, but it does show Haneke's willingness to experiment with the form and challenge the way audiences receive information. The film's radical deconstruction of various narrative strands questions the way such information is delivered and received.
Showing that there is both rhyme and madness to seemingly unfragmented everyday life, screenwriter-director Michael Haneke has created a pointillistic portrait of terror, presenting a number of tiny, mundane incidents that eventually enable us to connect the dots.
The film's Endsville, when we reach it, is almost an anticlimax, thanks to the masterfully orchestrated ensemble acting and the countless dramatic mini-explosions unleashed along the way.
Intellectually demanding and non-commercial film should be embraced in the festival and arthouse circuits by film students and viewers interested in postmodern, deconstructionist cinema.
Americans desensitized to senseless violence may find the subject matter almost banal, and the interspersed news footage of armed conflict from around the world feels like a rhetorical device. But the coldly telegraphic structure--a series of 71 blackouts following the four strangers to their deaths--yields some striking moments.
Format owes much to Short Cuts, but Haneke’s wintry vision lacks Altman’s sense of life overflowing beyond the frame.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
64% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
36% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company
ARTE,
Wega Film,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Release Date Oct 26, 2005
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
