Happy Haneke Hanukkah, gang! Like a first draft for a better movie that meaningfully engages with its own inherent hypocrisy - singularly tense at best (lots of effective close ups and uncomfortably still wides), unbelievably annoying at worst, middlebrow at... most. Haneke’s unique brand of self-awareness makes it basically impossible for him to stay out of his own way: even if I did think his thesis was perfectly sound, making the movie at all pokes a hell of a lot of holes in it! I find his whole self-defeating deal pretty interesting, even if I’m not sure it makes for particularly good movies. Very curious to see if he meaningfully addressed anything in the decade-on remake.