This 35mm screening (the film is also shown on February 20th) is part of the Michael Haneke season at Close-Up Cinema. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Michael Haneke's best films (e.g., The Seventh Continent, Code Unknown) tend to create their own world and their own rules, whereas others—like Benny's Video, Funny Games, and this postapocalyptic tale—offer variations on films others have already made. But Haneke is still a masterful director, and his authority carries this well-acted and attractively shot account of a family from an unnamed city trying to survive in the sticks after an unspecified catastrophe. (Some have criticized the lack of explanation, but the relatively lame and familiar backstories of most such movies hardly seem an improvement.) We've seen much of this before, but Haneke's theme of civilization gradually sliding away remains timely.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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