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Benny's Video

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Benny's Video (1992)

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Reviews Counted: 5

Fresh: 2

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 5.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: One of the most inscrutable, alarming, frustrating, and fascinating contemporary film directors, Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, CACHE) has created a name for himself by examining disturbing issues (sadism, violence, suicide,... One of the most inscrutable, alarming, frustrating, and fascinating contemporary film directors, Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, CACHE) has created a name for himself by examining disturbing issues (sadism, violence, suicide, racism, voyeurism, alienation, nihilism, and misguided faith) with a cold cerebral eye. BENNY'S VIDEO opens with disturbing images of a pig being slaughtered; it is one of the many images obsessively viewed and reviewed by Benny, the 14-year old son of a wealthy Viennese family. Detached and ignored, Benny seems only able to experience life through his video camera. When he kills a young girl on tape, his parents go about covering up the murder, and Haneke draws everyone--Benny, his parents, and the viewers themselves--into a web of complicity and postmodern dysfunction. Though his films are difficult to watch and invariably leave the viewer with more questions than answers, Haneke's unswerving films are some of the most compelling examples of the new European cinema. [More]

Starring: Arno Frisch

Starring: Arno Frisch

Director: Michael Haneke

Director: Michael Haneke

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Release:

May 16, 2006

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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - Arabic
  • (unspecified) - English
  • (unspecified) - French
  • (unspecified) - German
  • Subtitles - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Interview - 1. Michael Haneke - Director

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To Benny, and to us, too (at least for the duration of the film) the mediated image - blinkered, manipulable, vicarious - is the 'reality' of choice.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
02/26/08
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film
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[Makes] arguments that Haneke delivers with frosty menace but, alas, an also typically pedantic, haranguing tenor.

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04/18/07
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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Similar to The Seventh Continent, this film's objective is to analyze and deconstruct the effects rather than senselessly guess their causes

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08/19/06
Derek Smith
Cinematic Reflections
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06/24/06
Time Out
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in the end, with a character that repellent and a message so heavy handed, there is no need to commit ourselves to this bitter, merciless film.

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06/06/06
Keith Breese
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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05/06/06
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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A smug, contemptuous, passive-aggressive attack on the dehumanizing effects of media.

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05/03/06
Eric Henderson
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