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Daniel Auteuil,
Daniel Auteuil,
Juliette Binoche,
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Michael Haneke,
Michael Haneke
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: Sony Pictures
: Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller, France
: 118 min.
: English
: English, Spanish
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Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical middle-class European family, but when a series of mysterious videotapes accompanied by morbid drawings reveal that someone has been monitoring their house, Georges begins to suspect that his past has come back to haunt him. It was during France's occupation of Algeria that Georges wronged a young Algerian boy named Majid (Maurice Bénichou), and as the enraged father and husband begins tracking down his former friend, the line between victim and predator becomes increasingly blurred. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| What's Hidden? Just the Truth.
by talltale
July 3, 2006 - 10:01 AM PDT
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6 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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CACHE ("Hidden") is the rare film that, after watching the writer/director's commentary, I realized I appreciated more than I'd originally thought. Like so much of Michael Haneke's work, the film is cool and distanced (lots of medium-to-far ranging shots that can keep many viewers somewhat out of the loop). As usual, though, the subject matter--what to do about guilt?--is important, and Haneke's handling of it uncompromising, while the performances are strong enough to sustain the occasional melodramatic touch.
The guilt here is both individual and national, sometimes implied/suspected but often explicit. Class and race raise their unpleasant heads, and all--finally--is left hanging mid-air. A number of possibilities/answers may occur to you, none of which can be assured. Haneke is very good with psychology and character, and--as he mentions in the interview--he tends to enter the scene late and leave it early. For some, this will frustrate; others will appreciate the subtlety and rise to his challenge. The director also talks about how difficult it is to know "the truth." I suspect that many older viewers, those now looking back and trying to piece their life together in some understandable fashion, will be nodding their head in assent. |
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