At last year's Cannes Film Festival, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke introduced his relentlessly cruel but brilliantly conceived and executed Funny Games as an "anti-Tarantino film." Given Haneke's similar penchant for long takes, off-screen violence, and sadism, this statement is essentially bogus, except to imply…

Austrian moralist Haneke fashions a tense drama from the sadistic games people play.

Haneke’s admonishments are disturbing only in the sense that they’re never self-critical.