A gang of bears invades a zebra-managed bath house in Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s foreboding short, then Michael Haneke’s harrowing thriller puts a family at the mercy of two vicious home invaders.
Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2014 • Sweden
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
Directed by Michael Haneke • 1997 • Austria
Starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, FUNNY GAMES spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. ...