Bibliograph

Funny games, Wega Film ; ein Film von Michael Haneke ; Buch & Regie, Michael Haneke ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; eine Produktion der Wega-Film, Wien

Type

Label

Funny games, Wega Film ; ein Film von Michael Haneke ; Buch & Regie, Michael Haneke ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; eine Produktion der Wega-Film, Wien

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

Main title

Funny games

Oclc number

1091058288

Responsibility statement

Wega Film ; ein Film von Michael Haneke ; Buch & Regie, Michael Haneke ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; eine Produktion der Wega-Film, Wien

Runtime

109

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 975

Summary

"Michael Haneke's most notorious production, 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 game'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 attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty"--Container

Technique

live action

Classification