Annie Girardot, Aïssa Maïga, Bernard Le Coq
Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family -- shot secretly from the street -- and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. He has no id...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
Stats: 2,246 reviews
"I wanted you to be present..."
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on its front porch that may be the direct result from an event from years ago.REVIEW
Gripping y...( read more)
Formally quite interesting plus good performances. I don't really get the hype about the last shot. I can't shake off the feeling that Haneke is taking some huge narrative shortcuts using the genre trappings, ie the surveillance shots. It's like the characters are manipulated thr...( read more)
Cache is full of amazing yet subtle moments and it fully requires audience participation.
Tense and unsettling tale of the past catching up with you, with a nicely ambiguous ending. Little happens or is resolved which can be off putting. Certainly an enigma if not terrifically enjoyable.
"The first great film of the 21st Century" - well, that's what it says on the cover of the dvd. I think this is the first sub-titled film for me, that seems to lose something in translation. According to the synopsis ("This utterly compelling psychological thriller..."), I feel...( read more)
I was waiting for last awesome twist to happen but in never came. If I've invested time in a film like this one that's not okey.
I wanted the (or at least more of them) answered!
And why didn't they just put up a camera and film the guy filming.
UPDATE: a few blog posts saves ...( read more)
I can't see why some people say it takes a lot of time unfolding, I see it as a thriller from the very first minute.
It is great, I kept hanging on the edge of my seat the whole movie always expecting what could happen on the next scene. It has so many themes to discuss like Fre...( read more)
It unfolds like a great mystery and gradually becomes incredibly harrowing. I suspect this will be a bit too slow for most though. It's definitely creepy though.
Haneke's characters are never easy to like, yet it's impossible not to empathize with their anxiety. It's his mastery of the craft, both visual and sonic, that pulls viewers along in its grip. full review
When Caché played at Cannes, some critics deplored its lack of a resolution. I think it works precisely because it leaves us hanging. full review
By the final riveting and static images, fear and guilt have become almost palpable. You won't be able to look away. full review
Haneke's aspiration to artistry is hideously high-toned. full review
The film is almost claustrophobically personal and yet fascinatingly broad in scope, an ambitious undertaking by director Michael Haneke. full review
Tempting as it is to dismiss Cache as a liberal guilt trip in the guise of a thriller, it is at the same time hard to deny its creepy, insinuating power.
To some degree, Hidden is a cat-and-mouse thriller, the only problem being that mouse and cat insist on swapping roles. full review
Such a waste of time, talent, work, money, etc. The director comes out and said that this story can be told in any country, well of course, 5 minutes in any talk show like Oprah will be enough. the rest as he said can be told in any survaillance camera. minute after minute figuring out how is it that the actors are having coffee, or just making a call. What's the point in praising this kind of film just for convincing good actors to work in it? The argument is good, but the story is good, but is pointless by expressing it with such dull perspective and lack of directing skills.
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. A thirty minute movie was stretched to two hours. It was absolutely boring and very annoying because of the boredom. There was no ending to the story. Just a complete waste of you time. No way on earth I could recommend this movie to anyone.
Incredibly over-rated. This is one of the most pretentious, art-house wannabe film's I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Yes yes we're all aware of the idea of the gaze, the ambiguity, the irresolution, the sense of discomfort in the viewer, bla bla bla. It's as if the director thought, "hmm i want people to be really confused and then really impressed because they were made to feel so dumb. I want people to say at the end,'Wow, I didn't get it. But that's why it's brilliant, cos it's art, you're not meant to get it'". PLEASE! Cut the crap.
Definitely one of the best films of last year. This isn't your average thriller, this is a film that needs the audience to pay attention extremely closely to figure out the storyline and twists. Brilliantly directed by Michael Haneke, and excellently acted by Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, Cache is a masterpiece, and is a must see.
Definitely worth watching.
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