This acclaimed Austrian drama focuses on five months in the life of paedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.A protg of Michael Haneke, Markus Schleinzer's Michael is a triumph of uneasy cinema. With an unorthodox level of restraint, the director tells the story of a dull office drone who keeps a kidnapped young boy locked in his house.Despite its subversive edge, Michael successfully drains the shock out of a frightening premise and instead delivers a keen observational thriller. From its opening minutes, Michael reveals its alarming plot with... a patient, naturalistic atmosphere. [show more]
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Austrian drama examining the fraught dual existence of an outwardly respectable man who keeps a ten-year-old boy locked in his basement. Michael (Michael Fuith) appears to be an ordinary member of society. He holds down a steady, well-paid job, pays visits to his family and neighbours and maintains a clean and orderly house. However, unknown to his friends, Michael is a paedophile who keeps a young boy, Wolfgang (David Rauchenberger), in a furnished room in his basement. Though their respective roles of victim and abuser are clear, the duration of Wolfgang's captivity has led to a certain complexity developing in the relationship between the man and child. For all that Wolfgang loathes and resents Michael, he has also come to perceive him as his only human contact and source of company. Will the sanity of both survive the stresses that occur as Michael struggles to maintain his respectable facade?
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