The Film: Haneke describes Fragments as the third part of his unofficial "glaciation trilogy", with the three films sharing the themes of alienation but also a stylistic choice to drag out the narrative and ramp up the tension without quick edits or jump cuts.

This entry has various stories running through it, which largely seem unconnected until they're brought together by one tragedy set at a bank.

Haneke's View: "In all of my films, I try to fuel mistrust in our faith in reality. We know nothing about the world, except the things we have experienced directly. And we can examine these things.

"But everything else we experience through the media. And this functions like Chinese whispers, a piece of information is related from one person to the next.

"I see it as my aesthetic duty to reflect this. It's no coincidence that post-War literature signaled the end of classical narrative literature. It came from the experience of fascism, and the same applies to film."