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Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart
Writer/director Michael Haneke did a scene by scene exact remake of his 1997 Austrian feature to create this English language version of the thought provoking film that questions the movie industry’s perceptions of violence and reality, unlike any film since 1971’s Clockwork Orange. The performances are superb and delivery of the natural dialog is impressive. The story moves forward slowly, and turns the usual Hollywood formula on its ear time, and time again, but to say more about how it does so, would reveal too much.
Ann, George (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth) and their son, Georgie (Devon Gearhart) are a rich, young family off to spend some time at their summer home. Things are busy, but pleasant, until a couple of polite and strange young men show up. When it turns out that their intentions include far more than borrowing a few eggs, things go downhill rapidly.
Imagine Desperate Hours (anyone remember that one?), with the home invaders being a couple of polite young men of obvious good breeding and cross with the cultural commentary of Clockwork Orange and you will have some idea of what to expect here, but really, in the end, this will really not be anything like what you have come to expect from a film.
