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Title: Disappointing, Boring, Bare Film
Review: I loved Hanake's "The Pianist", also with Isabelle Huppert, but this film was just plain boring. All of the deep anguish and philosophical statements Haneke may have been trying to convey were too vague, buried too deep in the long shots across foggy fields and depressed faces of traumatized people. The lack of dialogue didn't help the viewer understand what is going on. A much better movie on the topic of how humans deal with the shock and suffering of a near-apocalyptic event, set in the same beautiful natural context, is Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker".
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