Cult/ Funny Games (18)
This controversial early film from Haneke remains a shocking cinema experience.
Fri 27 Jun
20:15
Fri 27 Jun
20:15
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Fri 27 Jun
A husband, wife and their son drive to their lake house. Soon after they arrive, two teenage boys, dressed in tennis whites, come calling.
They seem innocent enough at first, but when their entreaties to enter the family house are rebuffed, they resort to violence.
A razor-sharp satire of both middle-class mores and the conventions of the slasher genre, Funny Games was the controversial calling-card that marked an early-career milestone for Michael Haneke.
While much of the film’s brutality takes place off-screen, Funny Games remains a shocking experience and a potent meditation on screen violence.
- Director
- Michael Haneke
- Cast
- Arno Frisch, Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar
- Duration
- 109 min
- Opening
- Fri 27 Jun
- Year
- 1997
- Country
- Austria
- Language
- German, French
- Subtitles
- English
Certificate: 18