Amazon.co.uk: Funny Games [1998]: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer, Wolfgang Glück, Susanne Meneghel, Monika Zallinger, Michael Haneke: DVD

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Funny Games [1998]
DVD ~ Susanne Lothar

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Product details

Actors: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich M�he, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Directors: Michael Haneke
Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, PAL
Language German
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
Studio: Fox Lorber
DVD Release Date: 26 Jan 1999
Run Time: 103 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(14 customer reviews)

DVD Features:
ASIN: 6305228876
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105,869 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
It is impossible to have a neutral opinion about the Austrian thriller Funny Games--a movie so relentless in its ability to shock that it gained pariah status on the film festival circuit in 1997. In the warped tradition of A Clockwork Orange, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Blue Velvet, this is a film--directed with electrifying audacity by Munich-born Michael Haneke--that addresses the controversy of screen violence by making the viewer as guilty as the Leopold and Loeb-like killers who terrorise a young family of three during their summer vacation. They arrive as friendly neighbours, seducing the family with phoney congeniality, but soon Funny Games reveals its devious strategy, turning savage and appalling ... and completely captivating for those who can endure the terror. There's actually less violence than you'd see in a typical American horror flick such as Scream, but Haneke's forceful staging effectively fulfils his agenda of viewer complicity; we vividly experience this doomed family's fate and feel helpless to save them. So helpless, in fact, that Haneke dares to offer a hint of respite by giving a victim the upper hand, only to "replay" the same scene with the darkest of outcomes. Funny Games is guaranteed to outrage some viewers with its manipulative schemes, but there's no denying the film's visceral impact, generated by Haneke's expert handling of a superior cast. Don't even think of allowing anyone under age 18 to watch this film; all others should proceed with caution. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com