The Film: Filmed with long, unedited takes shot in real time, Haneke forces the audience to be a part of the story in another use of several stories intertwining.

As characters - including Juliette Binoche's actress - clash and crash together, Haneke focuses on how the world has seemingly lost the ability to communicate ideas and values.

Haneke's View: "The failure of communication is on all levels: interpersonal, familial, sociological, political.

"The film also questions the purpose of communication, and also what is being avoided and prevented in communication processes. The film tries to present these questions in a broad spectrum."