Michael Haneke Shelves Ces Deux, Shifts Focus on The Internets

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It appears that the cinephile in Michael Haneke is the reason for the scrapping of his “old age project” titled Ces Deux. The premise of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind my have been too close to Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, the wholesome tale about tight twosome who break away from one another due to Alzheimer’s disease or as the folks from ThePlaylist suggested could be Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions – which saw its lead character, an eternal skirt-chaser with a zest for life be trumped by a losing battle with cancer. Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant would have paired in that project.

Screen Daily reports that Haneke will instead work towards the completion of a script that is “about the internet” and will shoot around the world, in locations ranging from Japan to the US. My suggestion to Haneke is to avoid another Canadian film in Atom Egoyan’s Adoration which looks at how the transgressions of the online world.

The untitled project is currently being scripted and the screenplay should be delivered by September.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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