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Funny Games
The film revolves around a family that decided to spend her holiday at her remote home in an isolated town. The family discovered that they were in a real bind as they got two new neighbors with psychiatric patients. Over time, these people do not know that these mental patients will make their lives like hell in a short time.
5 May 1995, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
29 July 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 April 1981, West Orange, New Jersey, USA
11 May 1953, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
17 August 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
13 May 1961, Syracuse, New York, USA
14 May 1961, London, England, UK
September 12, 2008
We're left with the nasty taste of our own bloodlust long after the credits have rolled.
March 14, 2008
In addition to being borderline unendurable, Funny Games is inexplicable, and I don't mean in any philosophical sense. Who thought the world needed a shot-for-shot English-language version of Mr. Haneke's 1997 German-language film?
April 06, 2008
It's not a reassuring vision but that's not the name of Haneke's particular game.
October 14, 2012
For an audience that willingly hands over fistfuls of cash to see men and women savagely tortured in the name of entertainment, Funny Games U.S. is just the director giving the people what they want. Enjoy.
March 17, 2008
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.
September 12, 2008
This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite.
March 14, 2008
While Haneke is attacking our culture for being drawn to violent fare, he is also relishing in presenting it to us, in prolonged and detailed fashion.
September 12, 2008
If you saw the original, the elements of suprise may be missing, but dread and suspense and nastiness are translated perfectly.
March 17, 2008
Haneke's assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged -- a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.
September 12, 2008
As an experiment in film form, Funny Games is intriguing, but the self-congratulation and post-modern trickery are at once irksome and intellectually and artistically dishonest.
September 05, 2015
A cool, calculated exercise in serious discomfort.
March 20, 2008
That this relentless barrage of psychological and physical torture is extremely well made and powerfully performed -- Watts hurls herself into her physically demanding role with heroic conviction -- somehow makes it worse.
