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Movie Reviews of Cache (Hidden)
Movie Review: FIRST OF ALL Coq d'Or means GOLDEN ROOSTER, YOU TURKEY!
Summary: 5 Stars
and the rooster throughout the world, especially France, SPain, Latin America and southeast Asia, is a powerful and terrible and royal symbol. It does not mean Gold Hen as mentioned in another review, which might be a far less prestigiious prize.
In order to comprehend this movie, please do a double feature with The Man from the Train starring Johnny Halliday, another great and wonderful French film which drips with the weight of time and generations and memory and age impacting us right now. Recall your own childhood and deepest traumatic suppressed memories, thus you most fear admitting, and how race and prejudice made everything you learned entirely WRONG.
Then watch this film. We in the America of Stallone and Speilburg are not trained to think, but to grin and drool at the sight and sound of tremendous exploding technology.
Watch this film carefully, and l'Homme de Train, and learn to think once again about the long generations behind us, and the long empty years of your life, and the long and useless minutes you now face, for what.
Good God, what a great movie, if you can see that!
Then take a break and give yourself a nice reward and watch Jean de FLorette and Manon de la Source for brilliant and tragic beauty across the generations.
Movie Review: Another perspective: on cultural dishonesty and superiority
Summary: 5 Stars
This film can be engaged on a myriad of levels. My read is beyond character, plot, cinematography...What seems apparent to me is the long term effects of imperialism on the construction of this film: the protaganist's decision as a six year old to lie about Majid (the Algerian- subaltern- victim), so he can continue without having his priveleged life compromised has horrifying, but not unusual, ramifications.
This is imperialism- or Orientalism- on a basic inhuman level. It happens all the time so most of us priveleged ones don't
notice it. We are insulated by our families, our friends, our
professions, our institutions from ever confronting the bad karma that colonialism, slavery, anti-semitism... and the many more subtle, day to day, aspects of the Eurocentric and American manifestations of exploitation; unless it bites us on the neck like 9/11- and then we still continue on our neoliberal, entitled way- pointing our fingers at the people we have indirectly oppressed for centuries. It astounds me that the majority of the reviewers don't see these thematic elements in the main characters and scenes of this film. Until we do, and make serious amends, our future is most precarious.
Movie Review: Caché may not be what you think
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are looking for a psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, skip this.
A lot of other reviewers have mentioned the excellent parts of this movie better than I ever could. In the special features, the director says the movie talks about guilt, which many people have reiterated here. But I got more from it than that. It's about film. It's about manipulation. Honestly, once the movie ended and I got over the initial shock/disappointment of the ending, I realized that the mystery isn't really that important (in my opinion, of course). The mystery is a device to discuss other things, such as manipulation. How film can be used to manipulate ideas/actions because it seems to mirror reality, but it isn't reality. It is video, video that can be cut, edited and distributed to sell an idea.
I could go on and on, but I feel that, if you view this movie as a shallow thriller, you will more than likely not like it. But if you are willing to read the movie, rather than just watch, you may be surprised at the theories you come up with that have nothing to do with the solution of the mystery.
Movie Review: What really happened?
Summary: 5 Stars
You will have to work to "get" this film. Attention to nuance, irony, scene composition and the ability to accept dreams as dreams, memory as faulty and people as liars, even to themselves: you need these to enjoy this great film. If you want a staightforward thriller with a neat resolution... watch something else!
This film is a brilliant character study with political overtones. The vision is cynical and bleak. I found it unsettling and mulled it over in my mind for some time. There are so many themes, but most are implicit: imperialism, racism, bourgeois complacency, betrayal, family, trust, paranoia --these are but a few of the grand themes tackled by Haneke in less than 2 hours.
If you like a film that makes you work a bit and don't mind being disturbed, even shocked, then see Caché. The pacing is slow and deliberate, but not "arty". The dialogue is crisp and intelligent; the acting, flawless. The camera is manipulated like a surgeon's scalpel (which is as it had to be, given the main plot points) and the vibe is tense and paranoid.
Not your everyday Hollywood piffle!
Movie Review: Incisive
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know if my review will have anything to add to the numerous reviews about this film.
Starting with a summary, I will say that this is an excellent film with marvelous direction by M. Haneke and very good acting by Auteuil and especially Binoche.
Granted, it is not for the faint-hearted through both its stark imagery and disturbing story line.
But it is as true as few things, in its dealings with racism, petty feelings, hypocricy, modern society and numerous other issues and themes.
Every aspect of the film is carefully thought out, with excellent choices in photography and scenography as well.
I must praise once again superb acting from Binoche, who seems to be 'living' her part, and incisive directing by Haneke, who chooses to leave some things unsaid, is ambiguous when needed, points out irony, unravels the storyline in a timely fashion and in all delivers a masterclass in directing.
I won't dwell on the story, as I am sure it has been adequately covered, but will only say that the film's title is quite indicative of one of the main themes of this excellent film.