| Summary: | Haneke's films are sonically charged experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and many forms of violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and defined by aggressive dialogue. Haneke is among the most celebrated of living auteurs: he is two-time receipt of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival (for The White Ribbon and Amour), and Academy Award winner of Best Foreign Language Film (for Amour), among numerous other awards. The radical confrontationality of his cinema makes him a most controversial, as well as revered, subject. 'Hearing Haneke' is a study of the sound tracks that define his living legacy as an aural auteur.
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