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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995)

Starring: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko Director: Michael Haneke Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel
  • Directors: Michael Haneke
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: German (Unknown)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Kino Video
  • DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000EQ5V2C
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #67,174 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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German-Austrian director Michael Haneke's experimental feature film, 71 Fragments: A Chronology of Chance, explores the bleak, disjointed lives of several people only to tie them together at the end, during a tragic, violent climax. Five-to-ten minute segments, spliced together, unravel fractured narratives from ten sets of people, ranging from a couple frustrated by their newly-adopted girl, to a daughter who, to spite her aging father, prevents him from spending time with his granddaughter, to a young runaway who survives German winters in subway stations, stealing and panhandling for food, cigarettes, and comic books. Between these narratives, real news footage reporting on Yugoslavian and Turkish wars, and the Michael Jackson molestation trial, makes the world within the film even larger and colder. It’s as if Haneke made ten movies, chopped the films into short strips, and edited them back together like Frankenstein, opting for ambience instead of plot. Full of characters who are "sorry that they exist," 71 Fragments contains little of the actual violence that viewers sometimes loathe in Haneke’s work. In an interview included in the extras, Haneke says of this third film in his "glaciation" trilogy, that 71 Fragments: A Chronology of Chance documents failed communication. That said, this film meditates on human isolation by distilling violence down into one chilling, final action, feeling more like a cry for help than a wish to separate further from humanity. —Trinie Dalton

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5.0 out of 5 stars Medium Cold, September 3, 2007
By W. Shriver (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This is a work concerned with the social impact of TV, a medium Marshall McLuhan described as "cool," or requiring a lot of investment by the viewer, as compared to cinema. Michael Haneke, though, seems intent on making cinema the "coolest" (in the McLuhanesque sense) medium of all. That is especially evident in this third entry in what he has called his "Glaciation Trilogy," so called because the three films address aspects of "the coldness of the society in which we live." (Haneke)

The movie opens with a title card that gives away the end of the movie. A college student named Max B. is, on December 23, 1993, going to go into a Viennese bank and shoot three people dead, then turn the gun on himself. From there we proceed to the threads of the story, beginning on October 12, 1993.

Basically, there are seven main characters. There is Max, the college student; Marian Radu, an ethnic Romanian boy from Bucharest, has come to Austria because he has heard "people are nice to children" there; Tomek, an elderly man, lives an isolated life even though his daughter also lives in Vienna; Inge and Paul Brunner are a childless couple in the process of adopting a daughter; and Hans and Maria are a married couple at wits end, due to the illness of their infant. Three of these will be dead at the end of the film. Two of them will be at the bank because they are habitually there. So, the "chance" of the title really only refers to one character, at least as regards the shootings.

The "71 Fragments" are isolated from each other by black-outs. About twenty of these segments prominently feature a television or a monitor. Several others feature them as audio elements, or have them playing out of focus in a portion of the screen. Most broadcasts are news programs, taken from real sources, and demonstrate how news stories are fashioned to show the viewer how to feel about world events. "Cool medium," indeed.

Haneke, in an interview found in the "special features," says that he strives to make his films in a way that shows "what is wrong in way that gives you a desire for the alternative." This amounts to almost a manifesto in his body of work, and accounts for the increasingly decentered and sometimes inscrutable quality of his films.

Here is a funny game Mr. Haneke plays with anyone, like me, who decides to count the blackouts. There are only sixty-eight of them. Sixty-eight blackouts, but still "71 Fragments." It is a little mystery a bit like the encounter at the end of CACHÉ, in which two people who aren't supposed to know each other have what appears to be a friendly and familiar conversation--one that is inaudible to us. Fade to black, The End.

Well, for those who care enough to count, I think the three missing fragments are as found as follows: two additional fragments are embedded in the very clever blackout #43, which begins with Radu telling his story on TV. The third missing fragment occurs at blackout #68, and concludes the film. As with everything Haneke does, this mystery will have different theories, but for what it's worth, there is mine.
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