Michael Haneke The Austrian War Horse

His film often documents the discontent and estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. He is also known for raising social issues in his work. He favors long, static takes and uses music sparingly; and generally only inside the frame of the narrative. While his films often feature acts of violence, he rarely shows them directly. His basic mode is one of apparent realism, but it is frequently interrupted by unexplained dreamlike incursions or direct audience confrontation. He isn't interested in film as entertainment, or in providing pleasure. He has the ability to dissect life and report on the findings with the precision of a coroner, the Austrian writer-director asks tough questions about human nature and gives us uncomfortable answers, all the while teasing and prodding, ensuring that we engage at the highest level.
Filmography
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989) Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family's disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
BENNY'S VIDEO (1992) Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this unsettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (1994) Haneke's mesmerising critique of the isolating effects of western society skilfully interweaves an intricate series of seemingly unrelated scenes.
THE CASTLE (1997) Haneke's brilliant adaptation of Kafka's great unfinished novel stars Ulrich Mühe as an official grappling with a mountain of bureaucracy in a dystopian society.
 

FUNNY GAMES (1997) A family are terrorised by two strangers in this classic original version of Haneke's disturbing and uncompromising critique of screen violence.
CODE UNKNOWN (2000) Juliette Binoche stars in this ambitious, complex and powerful study of the barriers that exist between people in the modern world.
THE PIANO TEACHER (2001) Isabelle Huppert gives the performance of her career as a repressed teacher who unleashes a previously inhibited and uncontrollable desire when a student attempts to seduce her.
TIME OF THE WOLF (2003) Isabelle Huppert and Béatrice Dalle star in Haneke's nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down.
HIDDEN (CACHÉ) (2005) This utterly compelling thriller stars Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as a couple who are disturbed by the arrival of covertly filmed videos of their home.
THE WHITE RIBBON (2009)
Haneke's chilling masterpiece penetrates the surface of an outwardly peaceful society to reveal the malevolence and violence beneath.
Amour (2012) A story of ageing, love and death. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva are a couple in their eighties. It's sometimes a hard film to bear, but it's also full of love and the endless possibilities of companionship and kindness. Hanake's most subtle work form depicting old age.