Funny Games.(Movie review)

Cineaste, March, 2008 by Koehler, Robert

Funny Games

Produced by Christian Baute, Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine, and Andro Steinborn; directed by Michael Haneke, based on his 1997 film Funny Games; screenplay by Michael Haneke; cinematography by Darius Khondji; production design by Kevin Thompson; costumes by David C. Robinson; edited by Monika Willi; Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart. Color, 112 mins. A Warner Independent Pictures release.

The arrival of Michael Haneke's English-language remake of his baldly provocative 1997 film, Funny Games, is like the reboot of a computer that ...