Cache (Hidden)
by Michael Haneke
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Actor: Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice B?nichouDirector: Michael Haneke
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Cache (Hidden)
DVD Review: Hide It
Summary: 3 Stars
I like films that keep me guessing. however in order to do so well they have to actually move. This one moved a bit too slowly for my taste. I also think that it required a bit of insight into France's history with Alergia. That info was subtly delivered in context, so subtly that it could be easily missed, thus the crux of the film would be, too. It's a beautiful film to watch, and compelling enough in its story... DVD Review: hidden is right!
Summary: 3 Stars
Everything about this film is hidden: plot, motive, story, purpose.
One can surmise how the next two hours are going to go when the opening credit sequence is simply the film of a surveillance camera. That goes on for a full five minutes, and there is rarely much more action than that.
We discover very little about any of the characters or why they behave as they do. Aside from two brutalized Algerians (symbolic?), no one is even remotely sympathetic. The film does bring up, very obliquely, some nasty aspects of French history, but to absolutely no effect.
I stuck out the full two hours because the film does have a certain Gallic style, and I really wanted to find out what actually happened in the past (which seems to be the only point of the film).
I didn't.
DVD Review: more like...hide this film!
Summary: 1 Stars
Ok...maybe I didn't get it or maybe I did but just plainly hated it! I watched it about halfway before I gave up.
*Cache* moved too slow and focused too long on some parts (example, the video clips). Foreign films are hit or miss with me. I do understand that their cinematic styles are different than America's. However, some styles are acceptable and some are just way over the line. The story line was just too slow for my taste. The videotapes (the "spying" parts) were too long with almost no action. It was so quiet that I think viewers would jump out of their seats if a pin had dropped on the floor.
Basically, Georges and his wife and son are being videotaped outside of their home. However, you'll soon learn that the focus is really Georges and his childhood. Investigating to stop this harrassment, Georges contacts Majid, whose parents once worked for Georges' parents.
Oh, I give up. It was just nothing but jumbles!
After I stopped, I cheated by reading Amazon reviews and the summary in Wikipedia. Thank God I stopped because I would have been mad for time wasted.
DVD Review: Hardly Hitchcock
Summary: 2 Stars
Anyone who expects Hitchcock suspense from this will be disappointed. It doesn't translate well into French. It's not scary and you won't be shocked, except by the suicide. It's a little too long and the moral tale at the center is quite French, so anyone else may not get it.DVD 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."
Description of Cache (Hidden)
Academy Award?-winner Juliette Binoche (1997, Best Supporting Actress, The English Patient) stars in CACH?, a psychological thriller about a TV talk show host and his wife who are terrorized by surveillance videos of their private life. Delivered by an anonymous stalker, the tapes reveal secret after secret until obsession, denial and deceit take hold of the couple and hurl them to the point of no return. CACH? is director Michael Haneke's dark vision of a relationship torn mercilessly apart by the camera's unblinking eye.Hidden throughout Cach? is the sense that you should be watching every moment in this film closely, just as the protagonists are themselves being watched by someone unknown. Georges and Anne Laurent's (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) enviable lives are terrorized by the sudden arrival on their doorstep of a videotaped recording of their Parisian townhouse. It's nothing but a long, unedited shot of the fa?ade of their house, but it's disturbing nonetheless. Soon another arrives, this time of the farmhouse Georges grew up in, and then another of a car driving down a suburban street, and a walk down a hallway to a low-rent apartment. Again the videos are benign but unsettling. Then the mystery becomes more threatening when they receive gruesome postcards depicting child-like drawings of bloody, dead stick figures. Georges believes he knows who the culprit is, but for reasons all his own refuses to let his wife in on the secret. Clearly more is hidden here than just the identity of their stalker. In Cach?, writer and director Michael Haneke skillfully, methodically pulls back multiple layers of deception, like new skin being pulled off an old wound. he masterfully fuses elements of his predecessors to create a film that is haunting and memorable. There is Bergman's fascination with the complexity of relationships, the suspense and lurking danger of Hitchcock, and the unique cinematic sensibility of Antonioni. In fact, the provocative final shot is practically a tribute to The Passenger--a lot of people will want to rewatch it many times to see what they can find in it (if, after watching it, you are still unsatisfied with the resolution, then watch the interview with Haneke in the DVD's special features for his insights). It's a film of great effect and intrigue. There are no easy resolutions, and the answers given in this mystery will only lead to more questions. --Daniel Vancini
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