Funny games /
Michael Haneke's most notorious provocation, FUNNY GAMES spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating "games," the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakab...
| Other Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | In German with English subtitles. |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection),
1997.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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| Summary: | Michael Haneke's most notorious provocation, FUNNY GAMES spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating "games," the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the genre's threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): .flv file, sound, color |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Andreas Prochaska. |