That film shows Georges catch a pigeon in his home after mercy-killing his wife with a pillow, and follows two married piano teachers after one suffers a stroke.
A long take in a film by this director opens with the title object being taken out of a box and ends on a closed door, through which are heard the muffled cries of children being disciplined with a switch. That film by this director also includes shots of scissors stabbed through the body of a bird and of a man destroying a cabbage patch with a scythe. This director opened that film with a shot of a doctor tumbling off his horse after it trips on a wire, the first of a series of sinister events including the beating of the Baron's son and the mutilation of a disabled boy's eyes, all probably at the hands of the village children. Another film by this man opens with the (*) discovery of a dead woman in her bed with flowers around her hair. That film shows Georges catch a pigeon in his home after mercy-killing his wife with a pillow, and follows two married piano teachers after one suffers a stroke. For 10 points, name this Austrian filmmaker of The White Ribbon who directed Emmanuelle Riva in 2012's Amour.
A long take in a film by this director opens with the title object being taken out of a box and ends on a closed door, through which are heard the muffled cries of children being disciplined with a switch.
Michael Haneke