Death in Vienna: horrible modernity in Michael Hanecke's 'The Seventh Continent'

Discusses the 1989 film 'The Seventh Continent'. According to the director the film is intended to be a provocative critique of modern day Austria's denial of its own complicity in Nazism and of the continuities that still exist between the violent past and the bleak, numb present. In the end though it remains unclear whether this goal has been achieved, the film never escapes from the polarizing critique of modernity it claims to be attacking.