
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys). 2000. France/Germany/Romania. Written and directed by Michael Haneke. With Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler. 35mm. In French; English subtitles. 117 min.
The director of Amour spins a series of interlocking stories that begins when a Parisian teenager mocks a Romanian woman begging on the street, a spectacle of arrogance and injustice that comes to affect a widening circle of characters including an actress (Juliette Binoche), her war-photographer boyfriend, and an African music teacher. Filmed in extreme long takes, the film is one of Haneke’s most stylistically adventurous, politically pointed works.