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- HorrorThrillerForeignCrimePostmodernism
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- 20th Century90s
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- AustriaIndoors
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Funny Games , 1997
German, French, Italian
Austria
Plot
A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as real as the real world's, is presented chillingly in this extremely well-acted, yet potentially offensive effort. Weak of stomach, beware.
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| Language: | German, French, Italian |
| Country: | Austria |
| Release date: | 11 March 1998 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
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TV Guide
Haneke's approach is unnecessarily self-conscious: His characters literally wink at the camera and openly interrogate the audience, and the effect is much less effective and disruptively obvious.
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- by: Ken Fox
The New Yorker
This elegant and provocative film succeeds in disturbing the peace, as all serious art does; we emerge from it guilty voyeurs, shaken by what we've just witnessed and by our own helplessness to intervene.
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- by: Daphne Merkin
