THE SEVENTH CONTINENT
Michael Haneke, 1989
Have you ever felt drowned in your routine? So drowned that you want to off yourself like a goldfish jumping out of an aquarium?
The Schobers are a well-off Austrian family who plans to migrate to Australia, the seventh continent. But why the f*ck would they leave behind a good life just to risk it all in a place they've never been to before? Michael Haneke aims to answer that question — and the ones in this essay's first paragraph — in his existential feature film debut, The Seventh Continent.
The Seventh Continent shows the life and routine of a middle-class family. The film is divided into three chapters: 1987, 1988, and 1989.
