An intense look at sadistic "games"
A family travels by car, with a sailboat on an attached trailer, to a lakeside cottage for a pleasant, restful vacation in the German film “Funny Games” (1997), director Michael Haneke’s harrowing tale of home invasion, dark farce, and terror. Georg (Ulrich Muhe) and Anna (Susanne Lothar) and their young son Schorschi (Stefan Clapczynski) soon find two polite young men at their cottage door who turn their lives into a nightmare.<br /><br />It starts innocently enough when Peter (Frank Giering), asks to borrow some eggs. Since Anna has seen him with their friends on the way to their cabin, she lets him in and gives him four eggs. He thanks her and leaves. Then he drops the eggs. Somewhat annoyed, Anna cleans up the mess. Peter asks her for four more eggs. Shortly afterward, Paul (Arno Frisch) shows up. Both young men are dressed in white. They smile pleasantly but seem to be toying with Anna. When Georg comes in, she asks him to throw them out. But they have no intention of leaving. This is just the beginning of a series of “games” they will play with the family — games they enjoy at the expense of the suffering of three innocent people.<br /><br />The rest of the film deals with the “games,” with violence a real consequence if the family won’t play. Georg and Anna are basically trapped in their own home, fearing for themselves and their son as Peter and Paul escalate their games to frightening levels. It gets to a point that the family realizes they may never survive this encounter and become overwhelmed by fear of what horrors the pair might inflict on them next.<br /><br />Director Haneke has made a brutal film that stands apart from most of the horror genre. It doesn’t rely on graphic visuals as much as on psychological horror. Little is revealed about Peter and Paul and why they are playing these games. They simply show up, as if they chose this particular family at random for their sadistic pleasure. They amuse themselves by presenting sick scenarios to the captive family, who cringe in dread of what the outcome will be. They even break the fourth wall and rewind events if they don’t like how they turn out.<br /><br />“Funny Games” is not for everyone. Haneke goes pretty far in portraying the effects of the evil duo’s game playing and is masterful at creating, building, and sustaining suspense. He knows how to rivet the viewer’s attention, and occasionally uses very long takes to avoid sacrificing growing tension. One particular take, after an especially awful incident, is held for nearly ten minutes with little movement from the characters as they recover.<br /><br />Haneke remade “Funny Games” in 2007 with an American cast headed by  Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.<br /><br />Bonus features on the new 2K digital restoration Blu-ray supervised by Michael Haneke include new interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch, new interview with film historian Alexander Horwath, press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, trailer, and booklet containing a critical essay.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Michael Haneke's most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in it's depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of young men. In a series of escalating games, the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture..