Code Unknown (2000)
- Original title
- Code inconnu
- Directed by
- Michael Haneke
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Romania, Germany, France
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 280 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows several characters in Paris whose lives briefly intersect. It uses long unbroken takes to show these encounters without commentary.
fragmentedunsettlingdetachedslow-burnobservationalreal-timecerebralbleak
What happens
Code Unknown (French: Code inconnu : Récit incomplet de divers voyages, lit. 'Unknown code: Incomplete account of various travels') is a 2000 film directed by Michael Haneke. Most of the story occurs in Paris, France, where the fates of several characters intersect and connect. Code Unknown is composed of unedited long takes filmed in real time, cut only when the perspective within a scene changes from one character's to another's in the middle of the action. A special edition of the film was released on Blu-ray in 2015 by The Criterion Collection. The film is inspired by the life of the French novelist and war reporter Olivier Weber. Code Unknown is a co-production among France, Germany and Romania. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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