A Rottweiler, Now in English

摘要

Michael haneke's "funny Games" is a scene-by-scene, almost shot-by-shot, remake, in English, of his 1997 Austrian film of the same title. Both versions are impossible to forget-and, for many viewers, both will be impossible to forgive. All Haneke movies are meant to disturb, as anyone who saw the unnerving, enigmatic "Cach6," or dared to watch Isa-belle Huppert mutilate herself in "The Piano Teacher," can readily attest The prodigiously unpleasant "Funny Games" is clearly the work of a technical master, a filmmaker capable of manipulating our fears with expert, Teutonic precision. But I'm hard pressed to think of another movie by a director I admired that pissed me off the way "Funny Games" did when I first saw it at the Cannes Film Festival 11 years ago. I wanted to wring Haneke's neck-a reaction he no doubt would have taken as a sign of his movie's success.