The Club Filmosophy series of evenings in association with
Tartan Video continues on Monday 26th November with a rare screening and discussion of Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance.
Club Filmosophy is an evening dedicated to revealing the thinking behind great filmmaking and has had regular nights at the Bfi Southbank as well as a very popular first night at Roxy in September with Lars Von Trier's Europa. Led this month by guest speaker David Sorfa, the night begins with a short introduction to the film, and after the screening the audience are invited to take part in a free flowing discussion.
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71 Fragments is the third film in Haneke's "Emotional Glaciation" trilogy, preceded by The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video. All three are based on stories culled by Haneke from Austrian newspapers and offer a bleak analysis of bourgeois ennui. With a seemingly senseless shooting as its core, 71 Fragments takes causality as its main theme and presents a meditation on the relationship between fate and chance which can be seen as fundamentally political. Whether that politics is one of nihilism or of engagement is, however, unclear. The film inevitably builds to a grim conclusion and investigates issues of free will and the place of the foreigner in our society.
The surprising "overperformance" of Haneke's Caché (Hidden) in 2005, has led to a popular interest in the work of one of Europe's most uncompromising contemporary filmmakers and his earlier films demonstrate an astonishing sophistication that it is necessary to revisit.
Haneke's films tend to put the spectator centre-stage and ask difficult questions about audience enjoyment and complicity in a manner reminiscent of Fassbinder.
Monday 26th November
Introduction starts at 7:30pm
128-132 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB