Code Unknown (2000)
7.4
An instance of littering unfolds Paris’ many social maladies in this thought-provoking hyperlink drama
Movie
France, Germany
Arabic, English, French
Drama
2000
MICHAEL HANEKE
Aissa Maiga, Alexandre Hamidi, Bruno Todeschini
118 min
TLDR
I miss 2000s hyperlink cinema…
What it's about
A young man litters on the side of the road, unexpectedly connecting four people coming from different lives in Paris.
The take
Any time someone does something, in public, one mostly thinks about how it affects them personally. We only have one life, after all, working from one timeline, one narrative, and one perspective that naturally forms when we go through it. Code Unknown plays with this idea, as a single littering incident then forms a series of vignettes, each shot in real time, that cuts only when shifting between the strangers who witnessed the incident. For some, this was just an inconsequential part of a regular day. But for others, it meant harassment, mistreatment, and difficulties that, had someone intervened, told the truth, or communicated better, would have been avoided. Through this, Code Unknown depicts some of the racial tensions in the French capital, but in the cryptic, challenging way Michael Haneke is known best for.
What stands out
The unusual structure.
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