Code Unknown

Code Unknown

Code Unknown
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Actor: Alexandre Hamidi, Josef Bierbichler, Juliette Binoche, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Thierry Neuvic
Brand: Kino International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 2512
Studio: Kino Video
Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Code Unknown

Movie Review: What we have here is a failure to communicate...
Summary: 5 Stars

Code Unknown was a revelation. The first Michael Haneke film I've seen, I was surprised at how vitriolic the reviews have been here and on the film's IMDB page - arty-fartsy and incomprehensible seems to be the general concensus, yet I found it remarkably vital and accessible for a film revolving around race relations and everyday failures to communicate. Starting with an incident on a French boulevard where misinterpreted actions have consequences for all the wrong people, it proceeds in a series of incomplete scenes by people linked by the incident or their relationships with those involved, taking in a multi-ethnic city where so many people have shut off from those around them that they either fail to understand each others' problems or to even make the effort.

What's particularly interesting is that it plays on the audiences own prejudices and presuppositions - at one point we naturally assume that a young black character is seated away from the window booth he requested in a restaurant because of his color, but no: it's because he turned up 45 minutes late and the place is busy. Similarly, it doesn't presume that people in what are supposed to be empathetic or compassionate professions are inherently good - when Juliette Binoche's actress asks her war photographer boyfriend advice about the sounds of child abuse from a neighboring flat, he doesn't want to know and her anger is more because he won't give her an out but forces the situation back on her. Her solution: ignore it. Even the innocent victim of the opening incident has to admit with shame that she herself had done the same thing to people she looked down on. It's beautifully worked out with several powerful sequences that are uncomfortably familiar to city dwellers (the metro sequence is particularly powerful) and somehow comes across as exhilarating as it is uncomfortable.

Great filmmaking - although if you have a multi-region player you may be better off getting the UK PAL DVD for a better transfer than Kino's Region 1 disc (and it has a nice extras package, too).

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