Cache (Hidden) Reviews and Ratings



  • January 5, 2008
    eloquent and "geneous" on the theme and subject matter of the story. It never drowns in the deepest tomes of this story.
  • January 3, 2008
    Very creepy and slightly odd thriller about a couple who receive a video tape through the post of someone watching their house and them. Their investigations reveal secrets long hidden but the ending leaves many questions unanswered. Involving, but a slightly frustrating film. Da...( read more)niel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche are always watchable, but a little unsatisfactory.
  • January 3, 2008
    It was going great, ready to be an easy 4.5+ star film for me. But the sender of these tapes is never revealed, which really pissed me off. I guess it might be fun for some to guess who sent them, but what damn difference does it make if you can never find out who's right.
  • January 1, 2008
    bare dutty brap!...ending is well annoying though.....
  • December 31, 2007
    i wish this was easier to follow. i think the director, in his interview, was pretentious and a nob.
  • December 31, 2007
    Is it that hard for Haneke to actually go and make a solid statement about anything at all? I'm tired of all his gimmicks and tricks, i didn't loathe this as i did with The Piano Teacher and Funny Games, but like those two, i felt i wasted my time after the film ended. Go get a r...( read more)eal job Mr Haneke, you are as pretentious and as clueless as your euro-trash collegue Lars Von Trier.
  • December 22, 2007
    Michael Haneke is not your average director, and this is definitely not your average thriller. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion, and from comments I've read on Flixster, opinions vary widely on this film. The plot concerns a French husband and wif...( read more)e, Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anna (Juliette Binoche), whose peaceful existence is disrupted when videotapes begin arriving at their door, indicating that their house is under surveillance. Subsequently, disturbing drawings start arriving as well, and the couple begins to feel they are being threatened, and that their family, which includes a young son, may be in danger. Eventually, Georges comes to the realization that he may know who is terrorizing his family, and that it may be connected to an incident from his youth. Since no crime has been committed, the police refuse to get involved, so Georges attempts to solve the problem himself, with shattering results. The film is an examination of the effects of guilt, and how painful truths are hidden from ourselves and others, so that we can carry on our everyday lives. Is the film successful? In my opinion, it isn't. But there are many who consider it brilliant, and see Haneke as some kind of cinematic genius. I think the long stationary camera shots that are used (overused?) to indicate we are seeing things from the viewpoint of the video camera, do nothing more than slow down an already slow pace, and emphasize the fact that we are watching a movie, thus preventing us from entering into Georges and Anna's world and caring what happens to them. Juliette Binoche has some good moments in the film, but otherwise the acting left me cold, as did the ambiguous ending. I've read that the ending needs to be watched very carefully for clues that reveal answers to mysteries left unsolved by the rest of the film. But, for me it was a struggle just to get to the ending in a semi-conscious state, and I have no plans to visit that state again.
  • December 18, 2007
    Brilliant and haunting. A slowly paced film that really pays off in the end. The performances are absolutely perfect from everyone involved.
  • December 14, 2007
    fantastic film from haneke
    just make sure you are paying attention!
  • December 13, 2007
    no, really, maybe i'm stupid or retarted or something but i just don't get it why it's so good
  • December 12, 2007
    "Caché" é bem mais do que um mero filme de suspense sobre espionagem residencial. Até porque esse tema já tinha sido incidentalmente tratado pelo estranho (e ótimo) "Lost Highway".

    Mais do que a tensão de sentir sua intimidade filmada, a família protagonista se sente ameaçada ...( read more)por algumas conseqüências originalmente não imaginadas.

    As fitas fazem com que os personagens reencontrem e reavaliem histórias antigas até então esquecidas ou evitadas.

    As gravações também causam desconforto ao mostrar os personagens ações que eles escondiam uns dos outros, afetando, assim, a estrutura da confiança familiar.

    A mais séria conseqüência da exposição desses cotidianos - e a maior qualidade do filme - é, no entanto, o embate que os personagens têm com suas próprias ações. Eles são confrontados com seus lados sombrios, causando desconfiança em si mesmos - e não só ao espectador - sobre caráter e integridade.
  • December 9, 2007
    An absolutely amazing film. It doesn't offer easy answere and it is somewhat slow paced. But I loved that about it. It breaks down the conventional "thriller" and offers something so fascinating. Haneke's direction is unconventional when compared to most Hollywood directors and i...( read more)t's terrific. He offers a view into the characters' world and mind that reaches far deeper than anything we usually see. Please Hollywood, don't remake this!
  • December 8, 2007
    Apparently, this is too deep and dark for me to understand and enjoy it.
  • November 25, 2007
    An interesting moral study on guilt.
    However, this movie has a very relaxed pace and would definitely not be for everyone (especially those with short attention spans).
  • November 16, 2007
    This movie is strange. has no ending and i'm still wondering who send those movies.
  • November 7, 2007
    This psychological thriller is a bit bland for my taste but the whole idea behind it makes you wonder about your own self.
  • October 28, 2007
    so many details to look.. did i miss something from this movie?? someone tell me, please.. this feels absurd.. maybe i should watch Haneke's other films..
  • October 27, 2007
    Riveting! This movie has an "In the Bedroom" flavour to it as far as its pace, so the scenes are subtle, yet significant and luring. I was glued to my seat for two hours, helplessly begging for answers.
  • October 14, 2007
    led to believe it was awesome. maybe i missed something.
  • October 13, 2007
    Seen the original in french becauuse it was given 5 stars by everyone. Didnt understand a lick of it and im not exactly a stupid person as somebody already said you will want your two hours back.Horrific viewing well worth avoiding, I only gave it half a star for the gorey bit wh...( read more)ich also made no sense
  • October 8, 2007
    Haneke has his own unique style.
  • October 3, 2007
    never heard of it in my life!
  • September 15, 2007
    Gripping. Shocking. French.
  • September 10, 2007
    klassiko ergo tou haneke...eswterikh bia...tromeros realismos
  • September 6, 2007
    Cache is a subtle movie. So subtle, it's practically invisible. Time stretches on in this film, as minutes of your life continually get sucked up, and you don't even notice until it's too late. On the cover of this highly acclaimed film, there's a quote that reads "Scarier tha...( read more)n Hitchcock". Uh huh. I can't imagine how anyone could find such a turgid, languid, glacial, and downright boring movie to be even close to as good and suspenseful as Hitchcock's works. Hell, even shitty Hitchcock movies were at least never boring. Now, Cache is, like I already mentioned, very acclaimed. Critics loved it. Audiences, for the most part, seem to have also. But I'm not surprised. It's the kind of movie that's so self-important and so self-indulgant that you feel like you SHOULD love it, even if you don't. Any movie that throws so many crappy Hollywood cliches out the window, waving a big middle finger at normal filmmaking, has to be good, right? Wrong. This is as dull a production as you're likely to see. In the first ten minutes, I'd say there were less than three or four cuts. I have nothing against long cuts - I just hate pointless long cuts. One take was showing a city street for (I counted) 3 full minutes - 3 full minutes, where absolutely nothing happened. We know these people are being videotaped - but this information could've been told to us in a 10 or 20 second take. In fact, every single scene in this film seems like it lasts forever, and that's because it does. To me, every shot felt like they were bookended. In the middle, there was the story, the narrative, the point of the scene. But all the fat; all the pointless, empty space of film that are normally cut before and after this material, was left in. Which makes Cache seem very important. It also makes Cache painful to watch. Now, the underlying story is intriguing and, yes, kinda freaky. But nothing is done with the stalker-plot. Nothing. We never really are told who did what, and what that means. The filmmaker mostly leaves it up to us. I don't ask for resolution, exactly. I don't want everything to be tied into a nice, pretty little package with a bow on top. But I do ask that after toying with us for 2 hours, the director gives us SOMEthing to think about or feel when it's all over. I mentioned it's subtlety, and I mean it - after having seen this whole film, I feel like I was watching static, or white noise, or just an empty screen for 2 hours. There's good material here. It's a shame the director's pretentions and ego bloated this good material and sunk it down into a whole lot of pointless crap.
    P.S - there's been a lot of talk about the last shot. I knew beforehand that the people up to the whole scheme, technically, were shown in the last shot only in the background. But when the scene arrived, I couldn't see them at all, and had to look it up on the internet. Make all the excuses you want - a movie that makes you go on Imdb just to understand the freakin' point of it all is not worth the trouble.
  • September 5, 2007
    a slow-paced movie yet not boring at all. watching every still scene would only create an effect to us as thrilling as (i suppose) being there ourselves. a quiet thriller, i say. no extraordinary acting by the cast, simply a great cinematography and thrilling plot.
  • September 1, 2007
    oh oh. estamos frente a un gran problema. como hablar de una pelicula que te deja sin palabras? como hablar de un film que, si bien deja millones de interrogantes discutibles, no se logra entender del todo? Y bue, Michael Haneke hizo una pelicula extraña, de silencios que dicen t...( read more)odo, de miradas y de codigos que, se supone que al mirar el film mas de una vez, se arma un rompecabezas para entender de una vez por todas el film. La historia se trata de una familia de clase alta que comienza a recibir videos en los que se muestra la entrada de su casa. Los videos estan acompañados por unos dibujos macabros, que a lo largo de la historia, seran de una importancia vital para entender el film. Basicamente, esta es la premisa basica de Haneke para dar rienda a su film; y con eso le alcanza y le sobra. No necesita nada mas para transformar a su film en un drama familiar oscuro, extraño, que tiene un pasado que se niega a desaparecer completamente y ya se sabe que cuando esas cosas pasan, bueno, todo se complica.

    Y no se que mas decir, porque la pelicula basicamente es sobre esto, teniendo atado al espectador, que lo unico que quiere es saber quien manda los videos y que todo se resuelva. Bueno, Haneke parece que no es un tipo facil y por consiguiente su pelicula tampoco lo es. El espectador se ve, de esta forma, en medio de una historia cada vez mas y mas intricada y siniestras, donde los videos en cuestion, son nada mas que el disparador para mostrar lo lejos que puede llegar la paronia, el miedo y la inseguridad. Un film extraño y soprendente por donde se lo mire.
  • August 24, 2007
    this film definitely does not live up to the plug on the back of the case. it's a slow, dry, contemplative piece which does manage to make you try to guess what's going to happen next, but i was never really scared by anything that went on. besides the obvious shock value shots i...( read more)nvolving majid, the only shot i found mildly disturbing was the last one. then again, i never found anything by hitchcock to be too great, so perhaps my opinion is bigoted and ignorant.
  • August 20, 2007
    Creepy French Psychological Thriller
  • August 20, 2007
    Sounds maybe good i'm not sure
  • August 17, 2007
    The first three fourths of this were excellent and then I was left scratching my head saying what the hell.
  • August 16, 2007
    I'm not sure what to think about this movie. Some unknown person is sending the hero (Georges) personal films. Georges is not being totally honest with his wife which causes lots of grief between them. Yet, we never find out what Georges problem is or who is sending the tapes....( read more) Perhaps it is good art, but I found it frustrating. (in French with subtitles)
  • August 16, 2007
    Indeed this one has eluded me...
  • August 14, 2007
    It was good until the end. It sets it up for some huge climax and then nothing
  • August 13, 2007
    there's not a lot you can say about this french movie, CACHE (2005) directed by Michael Haneke and starring Daniel Auteil and Juliette Binoche; it's boring and really slow, plus, it doesn't answer a lot of questions. The performances are good, so is the camera work, but that's it...
  • August 7, 2007
    This is an interesting and original psychological thriller that features really good performances, an intriguing story and solid direction. This film won?t be for everyone because of it's slow pace and it seems give more questions than answers. However I did like how it mainly fo...( read more)cused on the family and how it started to affect their everyday lives. Again some people might not like but I thought that it was an intriguing watch.
  • July 27, 2007
    No puedo decir si es buena o mala. El final es muy ambiguo, tan abierto que no me deja catalogarlo (capaz que esa es la intención del director?). Reconozco que Haneke logra la atmósfera opresiva en toda la peli (ya con la toma inicial te lo dice todo) pero el final no llenó mis e...( read more)xpectativas. Buen trabajo en tratar el sentimiento de culpa.
  • July 23, 2007
    Misael Soto, Carolina
  • July 17, 2007
    Like hitchcock but more real. Yes it's in French subtitles and I hate subtitles but there are 2 movies that get a free pass on subtitles and are a must-see: Pan's Labyrinth, and Cache. This movie captivates your mind, and has a graphically violent scene that is shocking in its s...( read more)low, realistic unexagerated delivery, much like the bottle scene in Pan's Labyrinth. Don't let the reviews fool you, this movie is not too scary or disturbing for you, and don't worry, nothing is gonna pop out and startle you. It's more hitchcock scary.
  • July 16, 2007
    I'll probably have to watch it again to enjoy it more.
  • July 16, 2007
    T o o f%ing l o n g ! ! could have been a good movie if it was 35 minutes shorter. Oh, and also if it actually had an ending.

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