Flatpack Festival
Film for all the senses

Hidden + Intro

Saturday 29th November, 2014

Library of Birmingham Studio Theatre | 19:00

Hidden Web

This unsettling masterpiece is Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke’s merciless dissection of middle-class complacent complicity. An implacable domestic thriller, Hidden exploits contemporary paranoia around video surveillance, with tapes of their stylish Paris home delivered to the Laurents family – highbrow TV presenter Georges (Daniel Auteuil), publisher Anne (Juliette Binoche) and their twelve year-old son Pierrot. The affluent intellectual couple’s relationship unravels as they wrestle with memory, guilt and denial. In exploring how individual biography and social hierarchy dovetail in producing history, the film provocatively punctures the self-serving vanity of Western liberal superiority. With an introduction by Dr Catherine Wheatley (King's College, London).

This screening is the first in a series of decade-spanning film events that Flatpack are planning throughout the year as part of Ikon Gallery’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Check www.ikon-gallery.org for further details.

dir. Michael Haneke (France, 2005, 117 mins)

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