Funny games / Wega Film ; ein Film von Michael Haneke ; Buch & Regie, Michael Haneke ; Produzent, Veit Heiduschka ; eine Produktion der Wega-Film, Wien.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Wide screen (1.85:1). Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Michael Haneke; New interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch; New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath; Press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival featuring Haneke and actors Susanne Lothar and Ulrike Mühe; Trailer; An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri.
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.
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