Cache (Hidden)
starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice BĂ©nichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq
directed by: Michael Haneke
directed by: Michael Haneke
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396138759
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 9965
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award®-winner Juliette Binoche (1997, Best Supporting Actress, The English Patient) stars in CACHÉ, a psychological thriller about a TV talk show host and his wife who are terrorized by surveillance videos of their private life. Delivered by an anonymous stalker, the tapes reveal secret after secret until obsession, denial and deceit take hold of the couple and hurl them to the point of no return. CACHÉ is director Michael Haneke's dark vision of a relationship torn mercilessly apart by the camera's unblinking eye.
Amazon.com:
Hidden throughout Caché is the sense that you should be watching every moment in this film closely, just as the protagonists are themselves being watched by someone unknown. Georges and Anne Laurent’s (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) enviable lives are terrorized by the sudden arrival on their doorstep of a videotaped recording of their Parisian townhouse. It’s nothing but a long, unedited shot of the façade of their house, but it’s disturbing nonetheless. Soon another arrives, this time of the farmhouse Georges grew up in, and then another of a car driving down a suburban street, and a walk down a hallway to a low-rent apartment. Again the videos are benign but unsettling. Then the mystery becomes more threatening when they receive gruesome postcards depicting child-like drawings of bloody, dead stick figures. Georges believes he knows who the culprit is, but for reasons all his own refuses to let his wife in on the secret. Clearly more is hidden here than just the identity of their stalker. In Caché, writer and director Michael Haneke skillfully, methodically pulls back multiple layers of deception, like new skin being pulled off an old wound. he masterfully fuses elements of his predecessors to create a film that is haunting and memorable. There is Bergman's fascination with the complexity of relationships, the suspense and lurking danger of Hitchcock, and the unique cinematic sensibility of Antonioni. In fact, the provocative final shot is practically a tribute to The Passenger--a lot of people will want to rewatch it many times to see what they can find in it (if, after watching it, you are still unsatisfied with the resolution, then watch the interview with Haneke in the DVD's special features for his insights). It's a film of great effect and intrigue. There are no easy resolutions, and the answers given in this mystery will only lead to more questions. --Daniel Vancini
Average Rating: 
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- Hardly HitchcockAnyone who expects Hitchcock suspense from this will be disappointed. It doesn't translate well into ... Read More
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- Frustrating and fascinatingThe comfortable lives of Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper-class French ... Read More
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- Subtly excellentThis is a brilliant film--many of the scenes allude to a larger metaphor regarding French colonialism ... Read More
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- MICHAEL HANEKE, OPUS 9***** 2005. Written and directed by Michael Haneke. Three prizes at Cannes. Georges is receiving videotapes ... Read More
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- subtle and thought-provokingFar from being "pretentious," this film was very true to life in its pacing, its unadorned visuality, and its ... Read More
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