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Mood:
- DisturbingRoughSuspensefulTenseAtmosphericBleakScary
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Plot:
- HostagesMurderous PairViolence SpreePsychologicalFamily in DangerPsychopathCrimesDanger more...
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Genres:
- HorrorThrillerForeignCrimePostmodernism
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- AustriaIndoors
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Praise:
- Award WinnerControversial
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Style:
- Twists and Turns
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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Funny Games, 1997
German, French, Italian
Austria
Profile of Funny Games
The mood of Funny Games is disturbing, tense, and rough. The plot centers around a murderous pair, a family in danger, and a violence spree. It is a foreign, thriller, and horror movie. Stylistically, Funny Games involves twists and turns and is postmodernist. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, indoors. Funny Games is set in Austria. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being controversial and an award winner. Note that Funny Games includes violent content.
Summary of Funny Games
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.
Details
| Language: | German, French, Italian |
| Country: | Austria |
| Release date: | 11 March 1998 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
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as Anna
as Georg
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Critics Reviews
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
Users Reviews
Michael Haneke's condemnation of violence in cinema, while well-acted and directed, is basically 'torture porn', except that it never actually shows the violence on screen, so it's more like 'psychological torture porn'. I've never been a big fan of...
- 17.June.2010
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
