Funny Games (1997 film)

Funny Games is a 1997 Austrian satirical psychological thriller written and directed by Michael Haneke, starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch and Frank Giering. The film follows a family, Georg, Anna, their son Georgie and their dog, who arrive at their lakeside holiday home only to be taken hostage and tormented through sadistic games by two young visitors, Paul and Peter. It premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, generating controversy for its graphic violence, and is notable for its metafictional device of having Paul repeatedly break the fourth wall to address the audience directly about their own relationship to screen violence; Haneke later directed a shot-for-shot English-language remake in 2007. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/