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“I’m something of a control freak,” admits Michael Haneke in this timely exploration, an insightful portrait of the Austrian auteur that combines footage of him piecing together scenes from Amour , The White Ribbon and Code Unknown with typically brusque interviews.

“I don’t want to answer questions that make me interpret myself,” he grumbles, though he does concede later it’s his own terror of suffering that makes him so good at depicting it.

Neil Smith is a freelance film critic and writer who contributes regularly to Heat, SFX and Screen International. He's a long-time member of the London Film Critics’ Circle and was a contributing editor at Total Film for many years.