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Film Bitter Pills: Michael Haneke Made-for-Television

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Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard slap in the face. The film's Brechtian dissection of spectacular violence was probably lost on America's desensitized audiences, and those in need of further raps on the skull would do well to attend this retrospective of Haneke's early television films. Fraulein (1984) and the two-part Lemmings (1979) are bleak studies of post-WWII bourgeois family life, while The Rebellion (1993), influenced by Weimar cinema, focuses on a WWI vet's disillusionment with the causes for which he sacrificed his youth.

– Matt Sussman

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