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Nov 19, 2024 7:30PM
Funny Games (1997)
Learning Beyond the Classics
Directed by Michael Haneke
With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
Rated R, 109 minutes, Blu-ray
In German, French, and Italian with English subtitles
Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, 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 physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’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 queasy 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.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB Students.
Directed by Michael Haneke
With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
Rated R, 109 minutes, Blu-ray
In German, French, and Italian with English subtitles
Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, 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 physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’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 queasy 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.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB Students.
Co-presented by The David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence, Notre Dame Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.
Item details
Date
Nov 19, 2024 7:30PM
Location
Browning Cinema
