Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992): Genesis Cinema, 6.20pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Michael Haneke season at the Genesis Cinema (details in the full What’s On guide here). Virtually all the films are being shown from prints.
Chicago Reader review: People seem divided by the second film (1992) in Michael Haneke’s deadpan, low-key Austrian trilogy (after The Seventh Continent, before 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance), about affectless contemporary violence. Some consider it an essential document of our time, while others (myself included) regard it as a letdown after its predecessor—overly familiar in its themes, though still somewhat potent in its depiction of an alienated 14-year-old boy from a well-to-do family who’s preoccupied with video technology and winds up commiting a monstrous act. In some ways, the portrait of his parents is even more chilling. Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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