Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 115 | Rotten: 15
A creepy French psychological thriller that commands the audience's attention throughout.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 2
A creepy French psychological thriller that commands the audience's attention throughout.
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Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical middle-class European family, but when a series of mysterious videotapes accompanied by morbid drawings reveal that someone has been monitoring their house, Georges begins to suspect that his past has come
Dec 23, 2005 Limited
Jun 27, 2006
$3.5M
Sony Pictures Classics
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This French film (in bad, washed-out English subtitles) is a quiet chiller. A family's social fabric unravels right before our eyes.
Caché encourages us to look -- and then to look harder.
Contrarian that he is, Haneke does a much finer job forcing questions than providing an answer.
Haneke's patient, tip-toed assault turns Caché from a little movie about spooked haute-bourgeois media personalities into a sneaky and effective exposé on the artifice of film.
One thing that cannot be argued is Haneke's ability to attract the best actors in cinema, perhaps by promising to take them places they have never been.
Coming from a guy who sliced private parts onscreen long before Lars von Trier, "Cache" is restrained. But Michael Haneke skillfully, slowly twists the knife on those who would so carelessly forget a decision that forever altered the life of someone else.
Many things are hidden in the layers of this brilliantly clever mystery from Michael Haneke: the truth, the point of view from which the story is told, the political references and, most intriguingly, the ending. Which is not to say you can't find them. B
Another step towards replacing facile jolts with compassionate scrutiny
Michael Haneke est visiblement un cinéaste qui adore mettre son public à rude épreuve.
Michael Haneke's aptly named Caché (Hidden) is the kind of movie that fully engages the mind of the viewer. It's a multi-layered, open-ended thriller, an onion sliced by taut piano wire.
This is a cut above the usual behind-the-scenes fare.
Haneke doesn't just communicate anything to be left up to the viewer; he stacks up many ideas for the viewer to pick through.
Here, no image and no act of viewing seems entirely innocent.
The film opens with one of the more daring static shots you'll ever see, a couple of solid minutes of footage of the protagonists' house, and people coming and going, passing by, and - of course, this is Haneke - a moment where the tape is rewound to remind you that you are watching a movie. In come the voices of
January 27, 2012Super Reviewer
Ah Michael Haneke, we meet again. This time around, Haneke delivers a film about a Parisian family whose quiet and rather mundane existance is disturbed by the arrival of videotapes of their home, as well as some menacing drawings, all of them sent by an anonymous sender for seemingly unkniwn reasons. There are some
March 7, 2011Super Reviewer
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