Funny Games R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 10, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt & Brady Corbet | |
Performer: | Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon & Robert LuPone | |
Directed by | Michael Haneke | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Haneke | |
Produced by | Hengameh Panahi, Christian Baute, Andro Steinborn, Chris Coen & Hamish McAlpine | |
Director of Photography: | Darius Khondji | |
Executive Production by | Naomi Watts, Philippe Aigle, Carole Siller & Douglas Steiner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Registers more strongly than the original as a film about privileged white people...
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The Age (Australia)
The film's polemic on violence in modern popular culture has a self-defeating narcissism; cheap comic violence is used to propel the action forward rather than develop plot or characters.
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The National (UAE)
Haneke's assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged -- a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 5/6 --
It's not a reassuring vision but that's not the name of Haneke's particular game.
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Time Out
Funny Games is the most disturbing film I have ever seen.
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The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
The fact that it features fine performances, talented direction and some moments of genuine suspense only makes the end product that much more grotesque and appalling.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: B- --
Haneke's film is disturbing to watch, but that is exactly the point. In an era where the media has pretty much desensitized violence, Haneke has found a way to make it all seem uncomfortable.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Product Description:
In 1997, writer-director Michael Haneke (CACHE) made the controversial Austrian thriller, FUNNY GAMES, about two young men who terrorize a family on vacation. A decade later, Haneke was convinced by producer Chris Coen to bring the story to America, filming a nearly word-for-word, shot-for-shot English-language version, even re-creating the locations and sets as obsessively as possible. Shortly after Ann (Naomi Watts), George (Tim Roth), and Georgie (Devon Gearhart) arrive in their country home, Peter (Brady Corbet), an eerily polite young man dressed all in white, including odd white gloves, appears on the doorstep, asking Ann if he can borrow some eggs for their neighbor. Peter is joined by Paul (Michael Pitt), and the Leopold-and-Loeb-like duo are soon doing horrible things to Ann, George, and Georgie, torturing them both physically and psychologically (nearly all the violence occurs off-screen), for no apparent reason other than they can, referring to the whole thing as a game. And the biggest game of all is whether the family will be alive at the end. FUNNY GAMES is an intense experience, driven by Haneke's careful manipulation of both the film itself and the audience. He's trying to shake up the viewer, even having Paul address the audience directly several times, with Paul fully aware of what he is doing and how the audience is most likely responding. And in one unforgettable scene, Haneke pulls the cathartic rug right out from under the viewer, playing with the actual medium of cinema in an infuriating and ingenious way. Roth and Watts give outstanding performances as the victims, matched by Pitt and Corbet's deeply unsettling creepiness. Just as Peter and Paul (who also call themselves Tom and Jerry and Beavis and Butt-Head) alternate between calm and violent, the soundtrack alternates between classical music by Handel, Mozart, and others and hardcore punk from John Zorn and Naked City. Though difficult to watch, FUNNY GAMES is ultimately a rewarding and illuminating film, though not for the squeamish.
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