Austrians in Paris.

Signandsign, which translates many of Perlentaucher's daily summaries of the best articles in the feuilletons in the German-language papers, is worth at least scanning for the bits they've translated of pieces on a production in Paris of Mozart's Don Giovanni directed by none other than Michael Haneke. From Manuel Brug's review in Die Welt, for example: "Of course there's no graveyard, no hell. The stony guest is just a bloody corpse in a wheelchair. Elvira puts a knife in Giovanni, then the maniac cleaners with Mickey Mouse masks (straight out of Benny's Video) dump him out the window."

Perlentaucher points to another one, Peter Hagmann's in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, but sticking with English, signandsight translates all of Dominik Kamalzadeh's interview with Haneke for die taz - the topic here is strictly Caché.

Update, 2/3: Claus Spahn in Die Zeit (and in German); one photo.

Posted by dwhudson at January 31, 2006 1:00 PM