Cache (Hidden)
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Movie Reviews of Cache (Hidden)
Movie Review: Frustrating and fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars
The comfortable lives of Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper-class French couple, are disrupted by the appearance of mysterious videotapes which show that their home is under surveillance. This becomes the trigger for Georges's guilty flashbacks concerning a boy who lived with his family when he was growing up, with tremendous consequences for his married life.
Director/screenwriter Michael Haneke's film frustrates many viewers with its inconclusive narrative. I was fascinated by the theme of guilt: how it can bubble just under the surface of our lives, its destructive power, and the influence it can have on others, including the next generation. I have come up with an explanation for events that satisfies me, and other viewers are invited to put together their own interpretations. It is a tribute to the richness of the film that it can support varying analyses. However, a film needs more than interesting themes to be a complete success; even when I was most disoriented by the narrative, I was riveted by the mystery at the heart of "Cache."
Movie Review: One of the best French films ever...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a gem in the canon of French film. Its tone is low-key but the passion, the suspense, and the mystery behind it all is intense! The two lead actors, Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, prove once again just how well they work together. The style of this film is not anything like the styles you will find in American films, but that is what makes this film such a classically typical French film. The ending is very open-ended, leaving you wondering and even imagining what happens to the main character Georges, played by Daniel Auteuil. French films tyically don't have real resolutions to conflict in their endings, that's what makes them so hard to be appreciated by an American audience. But, for those who already know this about French film, this type of ending does not disappoint but rather inspires and entertains the viewer. Very much worth watching for real and devoted fans of French cinema!Movie Review: Subtly excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant film--many of the scenes allude to a larger metaphor regarding French colonialism and colonialist attitudes, including the more obvious current western/non-western tensions. The director does not let the minority position off the hook either: the Arab son appears to deny what it seems he must have done; and in a movie where nothing is insignificant, a brief altercation between lead character Georges and a black cyclist reveal that both were fantastically out of line. Another time the film makes a subtle highlight of Georges, serious topical-intellectual talk show host, in a film studio editing his own live interviews--he is literally re-writing history and applying power by manipulating information for his own purposes. Scenes like this are throughout "Cache": nothing can be taken for granted. The director has studied his Kubrick and Bunuel and come up with a very timely classic.Movie Review: One of Haneke's Best (and most difficult to solve)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the eighth Michael Haneke film that I have seen and reviewed. The film is in French and features two of the best French actors working today(Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil). Cache(Hidden) was released in 2005.
Before watching this film I recommend that you view the director's taped comments. Don't expect all the loose ends to be resolved. As Haneke says, there are no correct answers to what you see in the film. This is not a typical American film in which the mystery is solved in the final minutes and we can go home satisfied with the conclusion.
Haneke makes it clear that you, the viewer, have to draw your own conclusions. What we see are fragments, not a completed film, and we have to fill in the gaps to our own satisfaction. You might have to watch it at least two times to fully understand it.
Movie Review: amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those rare films when, as you are watching, you forget you are actually watching actors in a movie. It seems just SO real. No music sountrack, no fancy special effects, no poetic-dialogue, it's just SO real!! We watched this at a film festival and there is one scene (I won't give it away) that caused such a reaction in the audience.....I've never experienced anything like it! After it was over....we all shuffled out of the theatre, in complete silence and once in the lobby, everyone started talking all at once. It's neat to see how much people who have watched this difficult, intelligent film like to immediately start talking about it to other viewers. So many questions....such a great film!