I’m not familiar with Haneke’s The Piano Teacher, but Boos and Cheers for Cannes Hero Michael Haneke describes his latest film, Time of the Wolf, and it explores a hypothetical situation that fascinates me:
Talking to reporters afterwards, he said he wanted to see how thick the veneer of civilization was and to measure just how quickly moral standards crumble in adversity.“I avoided describing the catastrophe,” he said. “How would you and I cope if the water did not come out of the tap? It is as simple as that.”