Funny Games

Name: Funny Games
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: March 11, 1998
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe

1998

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Attitude Films | Release Date: March 11, 1998 | Unrated

Starring: Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe

Summary: 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.

Director: Michael Haneke

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 108 min

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Scott Tobias

The audience is indicted for its bloodlust. There's perversity in paying admission to get harshly scolded, and Funny Games is not for the squeamish, but this may be one time to step up and take the licking you deserve. Read full review

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Rene Rodriguez

The movie gives you what you think you want, and then gives you some more, and just when you think things can't get any worse, Haneke swoops in and smashes the wall between fiction and reality, turning the viewer into a direct accomplice to what's transpiring onscreen. It is an astonishing film, sure to be controversial, and quite simply unforgettable. [30 Jan. 1998, p.6G]

Michael Wilmington

Funny Games is an intellectual's suspense film, which ultimately tries to critique and demystify violence. But, since our responses are never all cerebral, that's not entirely possible. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Funny Games observes the family's excruciating terror and suffering with the patient delight of a cat luxuriantly toying with a mouse that it is in the process of slowly killing. Posing as a morally challenging work of art, the movie is a really a sophisticated act of cinematic sadism. You go to it at your own risk. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Haneke's admonishments are disturbing only in the sense that they're never self-critical, and while watching one of his films, there's always a sense that he thinks he's above his characters, his audience, and scrutiny. Read full review

David Rooney

The film is shocking and upsetting, but never truly gets under the skin the way this kind of material often can. Whatever reservations are prompted by Haneke's approach, his direction is controlled and edgy. [20 May 1997, p.52]

Ann Hornaday

Funny Games condescends to its audience like a pretentious, preachifying graduate student in post-modernism. It would help us out of the cultural quagmire we're drowning in, if only we could understand its highly convoluted and exclusive language. [29 May 1998, p.1E]

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VictorM

Nov 19, 2009

Beautiful and brilliant. Cinema as an art, at its best. Not for the close-minded.

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JesusChrist

Mar 19, 2008

Not for the morons.