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Caché , 2005
French
France, Austria, Germany, Italy, USA
Plot
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.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France, Austria, Germany, Italy, USA |
| Release date: | 5 October 2005 |
| Runtime: | 117 min |
Cast and Crew
as Anne Laurent
as Georges Laurent
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Critics Reviews
Washington Post
Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.
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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.
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- by: Richard Corliss
Users Reviews
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...
- 11.April.2009
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- by: rmbjspd
- rmbjspd rated this movie
10/10Must See
I would agree with most and say the film is slow, most of which is probably useless. I didn't feel the length of the shots built any suspense or represented isolation, something which "2001" did successfully. Beyond that the story and acting were...
- 23.March.2009
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- by: Michael
- Michael rated this movie6/10Okay
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