Reviews
Variety - Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time, Time Out - A portrait of a place that is so rich, so detailed and so full of telling relationships and behaviour that you feel you have gained an understanding of the very essence of these people, Hollywood Reporter - It's clear that this portrait of a sick society is meant to explain, at least partially, the horrendous war that breaks out at the very end of the film, and the fascism that quickly followed in its wake, The Guardian - Has an absolute confidence and mastery of its own cinematic language, and the performances Haneke elicits from his first-rate cast, particularly the children, are eerily perfect, Daily Telegraph - A surprisingly affecting forensic study of social breakdown
