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Het regiedebuut van Michael Haneke!!!

BENNY'S VIDEO (1992)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EHQU30/
http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?product_id=938

DVD Studio: Kino Video
DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006

Director: Michael Haneke

Description
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Written and directed by Haneke, this "bone-chilling" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times) feature film opens with the amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. This unceremonious recording is owned by 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch; Haneke's Funny Games), a boy whose preferred mediums of experience are video cameras, action movies, and the surveillance monitors placed in his room. Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities, daily visits to a local video store, and hours in front of his bedroom TV, Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swine. By colliding the differences between frames and flesh, "Haneke's chilling look at post-modernity and voyeurism" (Pauline Kael) is deprived of character psychology and the pathologizing justifications of violence. Instead, Haneke's sophomore theatrical release offers a lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with -- and be hurt by -- others.

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 5.96 Gb -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 105 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Anamorphic
Sound (main feature): German DD2.0
Subtitles: optional English

Disc Features
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# An interview with Michael Haneke (2005, 20 min.; in French with English subs).

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