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Funny Games

Movie Funny Games Director Michael Haneke Cast Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt,

Here's what's funny about writer-director Michael Haneke's Funny Games, a nearly identical English-language remake of his own 1997 thriller set in Austria: Haneke wants to condemn Hollywood pop culture for revelling in gratuitous, graphic violence, and he intentionally places the most brutal acts of his sadistic hostage drama just outside the frame. Yet the violence is still there � it's completely germane to the story � and even though you can't see it, it still achieves the same sort of unsettling effect.