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Haneke’s brilliant multi-strand narrative delivers a chillingly prescient treatise on migration and racism, starring Juliette Binoche.

A Parisian youth disdainfully drops a wrapper into the lap of a Romanian beggar woman, a seemingly minor opening moment that sparks a complex, multi-strand narrative. What follows is a series of brilliant, single-shot vignettes exploring the lives and experiences of a range of unconnected characters, highlighting the inequalities and injustices of contemporary Europe with devastating artistry.

Centred around an outstanding international cast, led by Juliette Binoche, Haneke’s revelatory drama – the first of his many films set in France - is a compelling and deeply affecting examination of racial inequality and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world.