Funny Games U.S.
a MICHAEL HANEKE picture
Synopsis
Gerog and Anna, with their son Georgie, are traveling to their lakeside summer home. Upon arrival, Georg and Georgie head off to the lake for sailing while Anna prepares dinner in the kitchen. The serenity is shattered by a young man named Peter, who knocks at the door asking to borrow some eggs. The unwanted visitor is joined by Paul, a brash, arrogant young man. It soon becomes clear the pair have no intention of leaving. When Georg returns and tries to throw them out, physical violence erupts, and the family is held captive. What ensues are highly disturbing and violent ‘games’ initiated by Paul and Peter with Georg, Anna and Georgie as the unwilling participants. Haneke’s unbearably tense thriller and meditation on screen violence is updated to the Hamptons USA.
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Press
"Haneke’s almost shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 chiller “Funny Games” is as shocking and deliberately manipulative as the original movie."
VARIETY
"The year’s most controversial film…Funny Games is perhaps Haneke’s defining film."
THE TELEGRAPH
"Terrifying and hard to stomach – not least as Haneke has his perpetrators occasionally stare into our eyes and address us directly, forcing us to share in their process and pleasure. The film’s style and pace is of a thriller – but one with all the acceptable and distancing conventions of the genre thrown out of the window….a subversion of the thriller and a refusal to adhere to the unspoken ‘rules’ of the formula by answering the questions that hang so vividly over the film’s close."
TIME OUT
"Master Manipulator"
THE GUARDIAN
"It is a puppet-master’s movie, a manipulation…anyone under the impression that he or she is civilized is precisely whom Haneke is out to tweak. Haneke is a master at creating tension, but he is also a kind of counter-alchemist, who scratches away at a gilded surface in order to reveal the leaden corruption beneath…His actors are sublime."
THE WASHINGTON POST
"Every bit as gripping, suspenseful and upsetting as the original. And it’s even more of a crock….an accomplished film."
PREMIERE
Festivals
& Awards
Sundance Film Festival
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, USA
Fright Meter Awards
Golden Schmoes Awards
Young Artist Awards
Nominee
Young Hollywood Awards
Winner
Cast & Crew
| Naomi Watts | |
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| Tim Roth | |
| Michael Pitt | |
| Brady Corbet | |
| Devon Gearhart | |
| Boyd Gaines | |
| Siobhan Fallon Hogan | |
| Robert Lupone | |
| Susanne Haneke | |
| Linda Moran |
| Written and directed by | Michael Haneke |
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| Producers | Chris Coen, Hamish Mcalpine, |
| Hengameh Panahi, Christian Baute, Andro Steinborn |
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| Co-Producers | Andrea Occhipinti, Rene Bastian, Linda Moran |
| Adam Brightman, Jonathan Schwartz | |
| Executive Producers | Naomi Watts, Phillipe Aigle, Carole Siller, Douglas Steiner |
| Line Producers | Valerie Romer, Pascal Metge |
| Cinematography | Darius Khondji |
| Editor | Monika Willi |
| Sound | Tom Varga |
| Production Designer | Kevin Thompson |
| Costume Designer | David Robinson |
| Casting | Johanna Ray, C.S.A. |
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