![]() ![]() ![]() It is also, however, an obscenity-a characterization I'm not at all sure Haneke himself would dispute. And Funny Games, a shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 German-language original, is not only a meticulously well-crafted film, but one that has something to say about violence and viewership, the audience's complicity in the creation of cinema. Haneke is an extremely gifted filmmaker, as his previous movie, the fascinating but ultimately frustrating Caché, aptly demonstrated. After all, this is no indie gorefest thrown together by irony-soaked kids, but rather an honest-to-goodness, we-can-defend-this-against- any-detractors "art" film by a Cannes-certified European director. ![]() It's really the best of all worlds: a brutal psycho flick in which two preppy killers systematically imprison, torment, and murder an innocent family-that is, the kind of film you can market to a far broader audience than, say, Darfur Now-but one Warner doesn't have to feel ashamed about. With the door perhaps beginning to shut on the brief era of torture porn-low-budget bloodspatterers such as Saw and Hostel, released by arty studios for enormous profits-it is perhaps unsurprising that Warner Independent Pictures (distributor of such lofty fare as Paradise Now, In the Valley of Elah, and Good Night and Good Luck) had the bright idea of remaking Austrian director Michael Haneke's Funny Games. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |