Michael

Michael

  • Director: Markus Schleinzer
  • Countries of origin: Austria
  • Language: German
  • Release date: February 15, 2012
  • Sound mix: Dolby, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Михаэль
  • "Michael" is a 96-minute feature film produced by Austrian Nikolaus Geyrhalter Films. Directed by Markus Schleinzer and starring Michael Forth and David Rauchenberger, the film was released on May 14, 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
    The film tells the last five months of a child molester Michael and 10-year-old Wolfgang   .

    Details

    • Release date February 15, 2012
    • Production companies Cine Tirol, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria (FISA)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $15,715

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,366

    Gross worldwide

    $121,034

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lizzie 2022-04-19 09:03:04

      From an abnormal person who is trying to see it through normal eyes

      (Front row tip, contains a spoiler!)

      Admiredly came to watch this film with good intentions (? I'm not right)...

      The rhythm of the movie is slow and slow (you can shoot for a few seconds with a still picture!! Several times I thought I was stuck.), it was really unbearable for me, a time-crunched impatient, and I fast-forwarded several times (and happily missed it) some plots). The two protagonists also crossed their faces throughout...

    • By Elissa 2022-01-28 08:27:32

      May 29, 2016

      It's a cold-drawing technique that I like, but I don't dare to watch it... It's completely mine, much scarier than "Su Yuan" (Su Yuan talks about how rape destroys a child's body, dignity, and life).

      Michelle is a story about pedophiles. Man abducted and sold a young boy, locked him at home for his own sexuality.

      The film chooses a man's perspective as the narrative angle, and uses the calmest and most normal tone to tell a most abnormal story. At the beginning, everyone didn't...

    • By Vern 2022-01-28 08:27:32

      There is no such species as "normal people" in this world (after the end of jw, you are welcome to the blacklist)

      As the saying goes, "if the name is not correct, the words will not go well". In order to make the words smooth for my sister, I must first "correct the name" of the film. This film is produced in Austria and is German (all Germans object: Austrians speak Austrian! We can’t understand it! One: Sister, I all sound the same! I can’t hear it anyway! Okay! On the wiki, Austrians speak German and they speak German! And I'll just call you "German guys", bastards!). According to my sister's...

    • By Paula 2022-01-28 08:27:32

      The so-called perversion is only due to being too ill.

      "Michel" is a film about a criminal, but also about a pedophile that is considered taboo by society. From the perspective of the perpetrator, the film stares directly at the inner world of pedophiles, and objectively and implicitly shows to the audience the experience of a 10-year-old victim boy who was imprisoned in the basement for a long time and was sexually assaulted by a perverted man in tears. The film's final open-ended ending is not about whether criminals are forgiven or deserved...

    • By Jackson 2022-01-28 08:27:32

      Cold soothing to the perpetrator [cat]

      Before the title of the film came out, it was a peaceful evening life for a pair of "father and son". "Father" went home from get off work, closed all doors and windows, cooked, had dinner with the child, urged the child to go to bed, "father" watched TV, washed, and entered the child's room. ——From here there is something strange, followed by the shot of him washing his genitals, and then marking the notepad to indicate that a certain task has been completed. This is no ordinary...

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    • By Dannie 2023-07-12 16:16:10

      If the mother never thought of opening the door at the end (as soon as the door opened, the audience's desire was teased again, which was contrary to the overall style of the film, I think if it was Michael Haneke, it would definitely not be done like this), then It is completely the opposite of Hollywood...

    • By Elfrieda 2023-06-17 00:37:35

      Three and a half stars//The so-called "he's just an ordinary man"//This is probably the second feature film I've seen this year from the perspective of a criminal. Very calm and restrained, it depicts a seemingly ordinary man. It's too creepy...

    • By Laurence 2023-03-30 21:06:04

      Foreigners are so dark in...

    • By Fay 2022-12-26 20:05:02

      It's so calm and like a pervert who seems to be completely normal. This is the complexity of human...

    • By Angie 2022-11-19 11:12:33

      There should be an option that is good but not...

    Movie plot

    Michael (Michael Forth) is an extremely isolated man who lives alone. He doesn't like to communicate with his colleagues at work, refuses to communicate with his neighbors at home, and is estranged from his mother and brother because he doesn't want people to find out about his home. The secret - a young boy Wolfgang (David Rauchenberger) is imprisoned in the basement . This ten-year-old boy was kidnapped and brought home by him. He...
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    Markus Schleinzer, who directed the film for the first time, should be controlling not to bring his own subjective opinions into the film, hoping to narrate from a rational bystander perspective, but rationality is a double-edged sword: some well-handled passages, such as At the beginning, from the normal state of the two as father and son to the beginning of an abnormal relationship, the director has always been very forbearing, and...
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