Funny Games
Michael Haneke's profoundly unsettling variation on the murder thriller.
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A profoundly serious provocation, this masterly and unsettling variation on the murder thriller sees two terrifyingly polite young men inviting themselves into the holiday home of a bourgeois couple and their son. Interrogating rather than simply endorsing genre conventions, Haneke uses Brechtian tactics to confront us with our consumption of violence as 'entertainment', while showing us not the violent acts themselves but their consequences.
| Director | Michael Haneke |
| Cast | Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering |
| Country | Austria |
| Year | 1997 |
| Running time | 108min |
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