Funny Games
Dir: Michael HanekeCast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
109mins 1997 Austria Certificate: 18 German | French | Italian
Subtitled Funny Games
Part of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective
What is our obsession with screen violence? It’s a question Michael Haneke explores with surgical scrutiny in this chilling drama.
A husband, wife and their son drive to their lake house. Soon after they arrive, two teenage boys, dressed in tennis whites, come calling.
They seem innocent enough at first, but when their entreaties to enter the family house are rebuffed, they resort to violence.
Through the boys Haneke once again tears apart the fabric of middle-class life, employing shock and satire in equal measure.
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