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Strong and Moving!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It is a tough choice between "Das Schloß" and "71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls" although I have not seen most of his non-German works. This movie here is over 20 years old and the last and weakest chapter from a trilogy of films that Haneke made about violence, young delinquents and young victims (the first). His film here also has lots of social commentary, mostly about the War in Kosovo, which was a big subject at that time. The acting is strong as usual, especially from the old guy, in Haneke's films, but somehow his bleak and atmospheric approach (the one he always has) did not really do too much for me here. I wasn't particularly interested in the characters and I did not really care enough for them to be really sad at the end I guess. But it is also Haneke's usual strategy to go out with an unhappy end and that is not a problem at all. it actually gives several of his works a more realistic and authentic touch.This movie here is the only one from the trilogy that was not submitted by Austria to the Oscars, so it is fitting I guess that there were no further installments and that Haneke pursued a career about French-language films too. The first 75 minutes of "71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance" just weren't good enough to sit through and watch the thrilling last 15 minutes. Also the way Haneke divided the film into fragments with brief black-screens as intermissions did not add too much for me. I personally hoped (and thought from the IMDb rating) that this would be a better film. I do not recommend watching it. Thumbs down. Quite a shame as I quite like the filmmaker's approach and totally enjoyed several of his more recent works.

This is for me the most challenging of all the Haneke films, even more so than the similarly-structured Code Unknown.After a few viewings, though, I get the impression that most of the film is spent observing the processes by which human beings (our work, home life, and beliefs) are rendered commodities that serve the juggernaut of Western Capitalism (Haneke implicitly gives us permission to assign society itself a characterization, since all of his films feature an oppressive social milieu that itself acts as a character).Some characters become commodities successfully, but lose some of their identities in doing so. Other characters cannot be capitalized upon, fail as commodities, and are thusly rejected by the juggernaut or voluntarily remove themselves from it.And in the end, television processes the whirlwind of senseless violence that ends the narrative proper into a "consumable" (Haneke uses a translation of this word in speaking about how television renders human experience) little nugget of infotainment squeezed between other already-digested "fragment" events. My favorite moment in perhaps any of Haneke's films is the credit sequence, played out over traffic sounds but no music, where a young refugee from Hungary (himself becoming "cargo") rides on the back of a freight truck along a highway into the vortex of Vienna amidst other industrious motorists. The the long, calm shot ends as the truck drives past bright McDonald's and Coca-cola signs, welcoming us into the land of image and consumption.So anyway, I could be totally missing the point of this movie, but based on my familiarity with the Haneke universe, this is how it strikes me.Long Live Cinema

As I've seen Haneke's movie "Benny's Video" before (with one scene I really cannot recommend to non-hart-hearted people), I was a little bit warned of this director, who really manages to torture his public.You may know his more established movie "Funny Games"; believe me, for a Haneke movie, this is a real Hollywood soap opera!!!The movie seems to start quite calm and there is almost no action in it (which is usually not a good pre-condition for me to cherish a movie); but slightly and subliminal you find yourself confronted with many different curriculum vitae of persons, maybe not like you & me but like many of your elder neighbours and peoples you meet on the streets everyday.I don't want to try to describe, how their life is going, how they've lost their prospects & dreams of their life; but sometime during the movie you might recognize, that one of these persons could be you (maybe in 10 years, after having a job, getting more settled, maybe set up a family etc.) and this is very frightening!To say it shortly: You might get afraid of becoming like them!!!The finish of the movie is very sharp; most of these persons you were "pleased" to get to know during this movie are getting killed by an amok student 2 days before xmas and the only thing I & maybe you could think about that: What a lucky day for them !!!

An excellent movie that took my breath away. Haneke forces us to view television like we view film. He has no answers but throws us many questions. One of many things this movie shows us is how we stop to listen to the violence the news presents for us every day. We has almost come to the point that we need the films storytelling to get involved, but even then do we act?