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Caché, 2005

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil

Directed by: Michael Haneke

Written by: Michael Haneke

Language: French

Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy, USA

Runtime: 117 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.3

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Caché can be described as disturbing, tense, and contemplative. The plot revolves around a family in crisis, being haunted by the past, and family problems. The main genres are foreign, thriller, and mystery. In approach, Caché is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. Caché is located in Paris. It takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being an award winner. Note that Caché involves profanity and violent content.

Summary of Caché

Writer/director Michael Haneke delivers a masterpiece of unsettlement with Caché. Life seems perfect for Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche), a bourgeois Parisian couple who live in a comfortable home with their adolescent son, Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But when an anonymous videotape turns up on their doorstep, showing their house under surveillance from across the street, their calm life begins to spiral out of control. Subsequent videotapes arrive, accompanied by mysterious drawings, and gradually Georges becomes convinced that he's being tormented by a figure from his past. But when he confronts him, the man assures Georges he is innocent. A growing sense of guilt begins to rise in Georges as he recalls his less-than-angelic childhood, yet for some reason he's unable to be completely honest with Anne. Soon, their happy home is an emotional battleground, leading to a climax that is breathtaking in its ferocity and ambiguousness.

Though Haneke's film works first and foremost as an insidious thriller, it is also a powerful commentary on the urban paranoia and racism that continue to permeate modern society. Without using a score, and keeping his camera detached and static, Haneke nonetheless establishes a nearly unbearable level of tension. Not for the squeamish, Caché remains a work of menacing brilliance, and was the winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

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Language:	French
Country:	France, Austria, Germany, Italy, USA
Release date:	3 September 2005
Runtime:	117 min

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Juliette Binoche

as Anne Laurent

Daniel Auteuil

as Georges Laurent

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Washington Post

Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant. Full Review

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by: Stephen Hunter

Time

We the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open. Full Review

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by: Richard Corliss

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Cache

16.December.2011
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by: jodyann
jodyann rated this movie7/10Good

Cache

Cache is a film that is drenched in subtlety. Director Michael Haneke paces us through an intense mind-bender which requires us to consider the implications of every shot all the way to the very end. The film focuses on Georges, an affluent French literary critic, whose life takes a dramatic decline when he is forced to confront buried truths about his past. Someone has been videotaping him with a hidden camera and sending the tapes to his house and work place. The tapes are wrapped in white paper featuring an image drawn in a child like manner of a man with a violent splatter of blood pouring from his throat. The intensity of the film builds from Georges desire to figure out who is responsible. He finally has a "hunch" and decides to visit an apartment featured in one of the tapes, which ends up belonging to Ajid, an Algerian man with whom Georges had shared a small portion of his childhood. Ajid's character is blank and deliberately impenetrable. We do not know if he is lying or telling the truth, although Georges believes he has been sending the tapes. The viewer only knows that Georges had supposedly caused irreparable damage in Aji's life, but the details about what Georges actually did remain unclear. With the introduction of Ajid's character, Cache takes on a new complexity. The film becomes a portrait of class guilt and buried secrets. We see the parallelism between Georges' relationhip with Ajid's and the contentious relations between the white French and Maghreb people. Several scenes and dialogues throughout the film add weight to this political dimension. They suggest that there is a pervading state of paranoia amongst the wealthy in France. The Maghreb people are invading their space. The Maghreb people are threatening their lives. But, what is the real threat and who is the real victim? Ajid or Georges? Throughout the movie, a void remains where sympathy should fill. It is difficult to take sides and the viewer cannot help but remain emotionally frigid.

16.December.2011
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by: jodyann

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This is a movie about more than one man's guilty past or even the skeleton's in France's closet. It is about the devastating reality everyone in the so-called "first world" has to face: Every bit of the lives we lead, from our houses to our families... Read and rate it

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by: rmbjspd
rmbjspd rated this movie10/10Must See

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