Huck magazine

Michael Haneke puts a bullet in the head of mainstream cinema with this audacious remake of his own German-language original.

Audacious? A remake? By retracing his steps through this story of a violent home invasion, Haneke has produced a provocative meditation on nihilism, cruelty and our bourgeois expectations of cinema.

There is method in his madness, but no reason, no answers behind the actions of ‘Peter’ and ‘Paul’ who spend a terrifying twenty-four hours systematically dehumanising a young, affluent family.

There is only outrage, anger and the persistent, nagging nuances of Haneke’s genius for taking cinema to places that other artists daren’t dream.