“If Michael Haneke had a slightly less ironic appreciation of the term ‘funny games,’ he might have cooked up something a little like “Borgman” a sly, insidious and intermittently hilarious domestic thriller,” Variety’s Guy Lodge wrote in his review.
Pic toplines Hadewych Minis, Jan Bijvoet and Jeroen Perceval.
Fortissimo Films, which represents “Borgman” in international markets, has sold it to dozens of territories. Drafthouse Films will release the pic in U.S. theaters next year. Cineart gave it a big bow across the Netherlands on August 28.