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Cache (Hidden)
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Universal acclaim
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Michael Haneke
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 23, 2005
DVD: June 27, 2006
Running Time: 117 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Austria / Germany / Italy
Language(s): French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: R for brief strong violence
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Lester Makedonsky, Bernard Le Coq, Walid Afkir, and Daniel Duval
Georges (Auteuil), a television talk show host, and his wife Anne (Binoche), are living the perfect life of modern comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why. As more tapes arrive containing images that are disturbingly intimate and increasingly personal, Georges launches in to an investigation of his own as to who is behind this. As he does so, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he and Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Newsweek David Ansen
This brilliantly disturbing movie is constructed with surgical precision. Haneke lets no one off the hook least of all the viewer.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
In this movie, Auteuil ("Jean de Florette") and Binoche ("Chocolat") are such marvelous actors, they can shift us in almost any emotional direction with a speech or a glance.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Like Hitchcock, only creepier, Haneke slowly cranks up the suspense.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
One of the most vital and strangely gripping films in recent years, a thriller more opaque, involving and realistic than just about anything that Hollywood is capable of.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Haneke echoes the theme of Hitchcock's "Rear Window": Moviemaking is basically an act of voyeurism. We secretly examine people's lives in every movie. But in this one, there is a hidden camera, a movie within the movie as it were, forcing us to observe a character along side a mysterious stranger.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Binoche and Auteuil are both quietly sensational in their fracturing personae, but the film is Haneke's premier postmodern assault--less visceral, perhaps, than "Code Unknown" and the criminally underappreciated "Time of the Wolf," but more thoughtful and, in the end, deeper in the afterplay.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Caché seems at first glance like a straightforward thriller - about a talk-show host being stalked by a technologically savvy blackmailer. But it's really a sly, subversive commentary on conscience, race, class and inequity.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Caché is unsettling and tense, even shocking. And its story of enduring tensions between an Algerian immigrant and a well-off French family is particularly timely.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Haneke peels back the layers of Georges Laurent as slowly and dispassionately as a scientist dissecting a diseased mouse. The ending arrives with the power and inevitability of Greek drama.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Haneke is best known for "The Piano Teacher." His latest, Caché (or Hidden) is a quieter but equally provocative attack. It's less in your face, more in your head and under your skin.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
An extraordinarily taunt and suspenseful psychological thriller.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
This is the most Hitchcockian of Haneke's films. A seemingly well-adjusted man in a well ordered universe is brought to the brink.
Read Full Review >Empire David Parkinson
Whether viewed as a political allegory or a domestic drama, this is the most accessible film yet from one of Europe’s very finest filmmakers.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A tightly constructed drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle without a solution about surveillance and various kinds of denial finds writer-director Michael Haneke near the top of his game, though it's not a game everyone will want to play.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
On a deeper level, Haneke tries to reach for political allegory on the French-Algerian War, but the film functions best as a perfectly calibrated thriller, perhaps his most accessible to date.
Read Full Review >Variety Deborah Young
A tightly plotted and paced thriller whose not-so-hidden agenda is to expose the bad conscience of the world's haves toward its have-nots, "Hidden" is one of Austrian helmer Michael Haneke's most watchable and pungent works.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
The eerily timely subject of Haneke's film is France's unwilling encounter with the disenfranchised minorities it has tried to sweep under the rug. As one who giggled through his widely admired, irredeemably silly "The Piano Teacher," I wasn't prepared to be easily won over by Caché, but it turns out to be his most human and affecting movie to date.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
To some degree, “Hidden” is a cat-and-mouse thriller, the only problem being that mouse and cat insist on swapping roles.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
While this film can seem politically simplistic, it is nonetheless psychologically astute, and more complicated than it at first appears.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Demanding, quietly breathtaking film.
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
What's compelling about Caché is not the answer to the whodunit but Haneke's exacting invocation of palpable tension.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
What really makes Hidden so involving is Haneke's sometimes maddening insistence on keeping things vague.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Anyone looking for the comfort in a tense thriller ending in a satisfying restoration of order and psychological security will be bitterly disappointed, but Haneke isn't in the business of encouraging comforting illusions.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
It isn't your typical scary movie--there are no "boo!" moments--but it may gradually creep you out and perhaps even more after you've seen it.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
As with much art of our time--music, painting, sculpture, theater--Caché in a certain way affronts us. Its deliberate contravention of our expectations, and not necessarily stodgy expectations, is part of its intent.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
While Caché offers food for thought, the last third is muddled.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Cache is the feel-guilty movie of the new millennium.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
In the important things, in all the ways that really count, Caché is a handsome fraud.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 195 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ken O gave it a1:
Love the comments from the "feelm" snobs about how great this was. Pretentious, boring, slow...does France have a surplus of video stock? That's the only explanation for the multiple minutes-long scenes of *nothing* happening. I figure the actors and crew were having lunch, someone left the camera on, and when they got back Haneke shrugged his shoulders and said "print it". And the slasher scene---sure, everyone knows that Friday the 13th and Halloween part 25 are the epitome of artistic cinema, but this? Looked more like Monty Python's Black Knight.
Simon T. gave it a9:
First class motion. It glides, fantastic space. Thought the direction was wonderful, fully enjoyed this little gem of a flick.
sarah sarah gave it an8:
Don't everyone forget the metaphor for french/algerian relations - ie the parents were going to care for Majid like a child but then rejected him to suffer, also the younger generation is fed up with the world their parents made for them and are willing to work together even against their own parents.
Ed R gave it a0:
It seems that anyone criticizing this film will be immediately dismissed as an idiot, or someone who only watches and/or understands Hollywood dreck, but this is just the same kind of dull snobbery that presumably leads to people claiming to like a film like 'Caché'. It's an abysmal film, a clearly signposted "mystery" in which a dull, unlikable character wanders around disinterestedly heading towards a silly, thudding conclusion. Haneke's attempts to imitate the graceful, leisurely pace of directors like Tarkovsky are merely flat and self-important, the film's ploddingly obvious plot of interest only to those betting on how long it will go on for. A psychological thriller with no thrills and no psychology, which expects us to care about tedious, underwritten characters and, in failing to portray them in anything but the most heavy-handed, uninteresting terms, criminally wastes Auteuil and Binoche, two of the most talented actors of the last twenty years. The allegorical story about the relationship between France and Algeria ostensibly provides some depth, but that does not mean that the film is any less of an interminable cop-out. On as objective a level as is possible - it's dire.
Craig C gave it a0:
Unlike the movie, I'll be brief. It's a pretentious waste of time. I kept the DVD fast forward pressed through the interminable slow shots where nothing happens, and it STILL bored me. My condolences to those who suffered through this in the theatre.
Mani M. gave it a10:
Absolutely thought provoking. the issues that this film brought up are essentially what you will end up thinking about for days and the question of who was behind the tapes will become irrelevant.
Joseph L. gave it an8:
This movie goes far beyond entertainment alone. Its powerful shots at critical points of the film tie everything together and force the audience to ponder about the motives which might have driven the characters to act the way they did. Great movie.
