His first masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2009)

Few directors have like Haneke divided both critics and audiences. He has alienated them. Some say it's not possible to take all this in. You become a voyeur instead of a focused part-taker. And these objections are the most serious ones, considering Haneke's art.
But here you from the first second get involved in this little grey German village of 1913. It's about people who have existed and start to exist inside you at the same time as you're part of the screen.
The movie is not about the "German experience", not about the evil in us all, not about guilt. It's about a real life inferno and for the first time, Haneke manages to get us into it. This makes this his really first good movie.