FILM SCREENINGS

Lemmings - Part 2 - Injuries

1979. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. Screenplay by Haneke. With Monica Bleibtreu, Elfriede Irrall. In this Sophoclean tragedy, the sins of fathers and mothers—depicted with such frightening clarity in Lemmings - Part 1—have been passed on to their children, now living in loveless marriages and bringing unwanted children of their own into the world. It is a world in which despair and longing are met with cold indifference, disdain, or enfeebled gestures of kindness, and the fleeting comforts of prayer, pills, alcohol, illicit affairs, television, and misdirected rage only lead to further injury. In German; English subtitles. 107 min.