Director – Michael Haneke – 1997 – Austria – Cert.18 – 103m ***** Two young men turn up at a family’s holiday home to humiliate and torture them via a series of controlling exchanges (or games) – plays in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Saturday, June 21st and on BFI Player […]
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Funny Games
(1997)
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- Post date June 20 2025
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