Fresh from Cannes, Austrian master Michael Haneke reunites with the great Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant for a cutting portrait of bourgeois European life.

In the new film from heavyweight auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, MIFF 2012; The White Ribbon, MIFF 2009), a teenage girl (Fantine Harduin) armed with a smartphone is sent to stay at the Calais mansion of her upper-middle-class relatives – presided over by the ailing, 84-year-old patriarch (Trintignant) and his two children, played by Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz.

Updating the themes of technology and surveillance from his own Benny’s Video (MIFF 1992) and Hidden (MIFF 2005) to the era of ever-present social media, Haneke has crafted a jigsaw-like portrait of entitlement and malaise, forbidden pleasures and suicidal tendencies that’s as austerely crafted and unforgiving as any of his career.

'A satirical nightmare of haute-bourgeois European prosperity, as stark, brilliant and unforgiving as a halogen light.' – The Guardian