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Funny Games , 1997

German, French, Italian

Austria

Rating:7.5
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.

Details
Language: German, French, Italian
Country: Austria
Release date: 11 March 1998
Runtime: 108 min
Cast and Crew
Susanne Lothar

as Anna

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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.

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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