Funny Games (2007 film)

Funny Games U.S. is an American- British-French -Austrian horror thriller from 2007. Directed by Michael Haneke, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is an image -by- image - faithful remake of his film Funny Games from the year 1997.

Action

Together with her son Georgie Ann and George go to their vacation home on Long Iceland, where they want to make a few days of vacation. There they meet Peter and Paul, who claim to be sons of a friend of the neighbors and initially occur very polite. But it soon turns out that this exaggerated friendliness of the duo is just a facade and part of a brutal cat-and -mouse game that begins with the innocuous request for a couple of eggs.

When George wants to refer the strangely behaving visitors later, the house, it comes to fisticuffs and Peter knocks him down with a golf club. The family is the stranger now helpless that turn out gradually as psychopaths and their politeness is in stark contrast to their lack of compassion. The nuclear family is henceforth in a nightmare of violence and psychological terror again, which lasts until the next morning.

On the evening betting Paul, the family will not survive the next twelve hours. Ultimately, this announcement proves true and the perpetrators seem to have no rational motive for her cruel game.

Reviews

Derek Elley wrote in the journal Variety of 22 October 2007, the film would be as shocking and manipulative as the first film; However, he was even more pointless. He acts like a "cold, intellectual exercise " ("a cool, intellectual exercise" ). The screenplay was no insight into the psyche of the characters.

Georg Seeßlen awarded in epd film- 6.2008 p 34 the highest rating, and noted that the experience to protrusion of Funny Games films by individual viewers "is not repeatable. "

The New York Times dressed in the words: " Michael Haneke has always been more keen to punish the audience than to keep it [ ... ] probably seen Mr. Haneke that as a compliment [ ... ] even the enjoyment of their masochism would be us take. [ ... ] Mr. Haneke seems somehow to be a being relative of Eli Roth. "

If you believe Daniel Hui from Bright Lights Film Journal, a significant portion of the U.S. criticism by the film seems to have felt personally offended - even the " more relevant than ever," is today.

The Mirror: " When compassion leads nowhere: 1997 shocked Michael Haneke with his film, Funny Games' [ ... ] Now there is a U.S. remake - but given the uninhibited horror movies of today, it seems almost nostalgic. "

Awards

Brady Corbet received in 2008 the Young Hollywood Award.

Background

The film was shot in New York and on Long Iceland. His cost of production was estimated at 15 million U.S. dollars. The world premiere took place at the The Times BFI London Film Festival on October 20, 2007. As of 19 January 2008 was followed by screenings at the Sundance Film Festival. The screenings in selected cinemas in the United States and Canada began on 14 March 2008; in the cinemas of the USA played the film is a about 1.3 million U.S. dollars. In Germany the film ran from May 29, 2008 in theaters.

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