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Article: Bearing witness: the Dardenne brothers' and Michael Haneke's implication of the viewer.(Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)(Critical essay)
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- CineAction
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- June 22, 2006
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I never really bought into this whole notion that characters have to be,
first and foremost, likable. They have to be, first and foremost,
interesting. You don't have to give Travis Bickle a dog.
--Paul Schrader
... without judgment, without judgment!
--Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), Apocalypse Now
The cinema seat is of greater assistance than the analyst's couch.
Sitting in a cinema seat we are left to our own devices and this is
perhaps the only place where we are so bound and yet so distant from
each other: that is the miracle of cinema.
In cinema's next century, respect of the audience as an intelligent
and constructive element is inevitable. To attain this, ...