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Funny Games

Cast

Ulrich Muhe, Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering View All


Crew

Michael Haneke (Screenplay), Michael Haneke (Director) View All

Release: May 14th, 1997
Runtime: 1 hour, 49 minutes
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
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12 Funny Games
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I went to see Funny Games last night and it was even better than the original for me. Throughout the movie I noticed a bunch of people leaving and not coming back in fact I counted 4 people walkout di...
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I'm curious... I know that Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games has premiered in America. I live in Sweden and it will probably not get here before spring. Has anyone seen it? Has any...
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Captain Spaulding
Another negative consequence of the obnoxious fourth-wall breaking is summarized in the following excerpt from Bilge Ebiri's excellent film essay on the Criterion website: If we eventually see them [the family] only as objects, or as pawns, then Haneke will simply have achieved the very thing hes tr....


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