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Think of an Eric Rohmer film with a couple of horrific young men who play their 'funny games' on an unsuspecting (and especially proper) family and you get the idea of the pacing and the tone, but this is Michael Haneke (dir) and the two young men are probably more polite and more monsterous than you might imagine, and the acting is terrific. The actor who played the wife (sorry I do not know her name) is an amazing and couragous actress to portray such extreme emotion. There is terrible brutality, most of it mental and you wish you could help but you can just sit there and watch.This one grabs you in the nether regions and does not let go. You have to see it to the end.
Michael Haneke is a superb director, I very much liked the Piano Teacher and Cache as well and thanks (once again) to tinear for flagging this one. You can catch his synopsis/review about half way down the page.
This one is highly recommended, you will not forget it soon...
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I watched some of it on IFC...and turned it off. IMO, its just intensely sicko stuff masquerading as a 'serious' film.
I think tin's recommendation was based on his appreciation of the social aspect, albeit very clumsily covered, of the Cache.All Haneke films I know score very low in the artistic department, and are extremely pretentious, as you stated.
Michael Haneke admits to setting out to provoke the audience with this film, and the subject is horrific, I can even see the pretentious quality.I could understand not liking it for those reasons but still think it is very well made and I like the games Haneke plays.
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