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Funny Games, 1997

Funny Games

German, French, Italian

Austria

Rating:7.7
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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

Cast and Crew

Susanne Lothar

as Anna

Ulrich Muhe

as Georg

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Clips

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Funny Games: Official Trailer

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.

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...

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