Movies like Code Unknown make me feel like the big, dumb, undereducated, beer-swilling, knuckledragging shambling mound than I am and so desperately try to hide from the rest of the world. This French-language film is fiercely intellectual and thoughtful and has things to say about things, by gum. And that WHOOOOSH sound you hear is most of them sailing over my pointy head.

Actually, Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke (best known for the 2001 Cannes Grand Prix winner The Piano Teacher and the wickedly messed-up Funny Games) injects a serious amount of deliberate vagueness into this unravelling ball of vignette strings, following the lives of five Parisians whose daily existences intersect during one random encounter on a boulevard. It plays tonight through Monday at the Metro Cinema in the Citadel's Zeidler Hall.
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