Funny Games 2007
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Seen by this director: Das weisse band, Cache, The Pianist
- Based on the book: No
- Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Naomi Watts – The Glass Castle, The Impossible, King Kong, 21 Grams, Ned Kelly,
- Tim Roth – The Hateful Eight, The Liability, To Kill a King, Gridlock’d, Rob Roy, Pulp Fiction, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Brady Corbet - Melancholia
- Devon Gearhart – Lost
- Why? Tim Roth
- Seen: 15 May 2022
Ann (Watts), George (Roth) and son
Georgie (Gearhart) arrive at their luxurious summer home and find that their
good friends and neighbours are behaving strangely.
Two young men, supposedly guests of the neighbours,
show up acting excessively polite but then they become threatening, then
violent, then solicitous and polite again.
Very creepy.
Very, very creepy. Horrible. And
extremely suspenseful. Almost unbearable.
It is amazingly well done, but the
question is: why make such a sadistic film?
Warning – this is not a feel-good film. It makes Kafka look like a sit-com.
3* of 5.
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