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Cache (Hidden)

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Cache (Hidden) reviews
83
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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)

What The Critics Said

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100

Newsweek David Ansen

This brilliantly disturbing movie is constructed with surgical precision. Haneke lets no one off the hook least of all the viewer.

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100

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.

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100

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.

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A perplexing and disturbing film of great effect.

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100

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.

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100

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.

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100

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Like Hitchcock, only creepier, Haneke slowly cranks up the suspense.

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91

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.

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90

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.

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90

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.

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90

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.

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90

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality.

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88

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.

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88

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A deliciously elusive mystery.

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88

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.

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88

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.

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88

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.

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88

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.

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83

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

An extraordinarily taunt and suspenseful psychological thriller.

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83

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.

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80

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.

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80

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

A tightly constructed drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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80

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.

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80

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.

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80

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.

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80

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.

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80

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.

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80

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.

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80

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Demanding, quietly breathtaking film.

78

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

What's compelling about Caché is not the answer to the whodunit but Haneke's exacting invocation of palpable tension.

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75

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

What really makes Hidden so involving is Haneke's sometimes maddening insistence on keeping things vague.

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75

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.

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70

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.

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70

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.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

While Caché offers food for thought, the last third is muddled.

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58

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Cache is the feel-guilty movie of the new millennium.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

In the important things, in all the ways that really count, Caché is a handsome fraud.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 193 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

Ridley 666 gave it a10:
I find it interesting that Michael Haneke's "Cache (Hidden)" won the Best Director award for Haneke at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and that it received an 83/100 on Metacritic, putting it in the category of "UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM" and that it received an 88% out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes with only 15 out of 121 reviews rating it "rotten." Surely the awards and the opinions of the handpicked jury members of the Cannes Film Festival and all the opinions of the countless credible and legitimate scholars of film crumble in the face of Dustin C's and fjuan n's and Maz D's towering infallible authority. These three erudite individuals clearly have something to teach all those countless lowly credible and legitimate scholars of film. In fact, Dustin C, fjuan n, and Maz D should each teach a course titled "How to Understand and Decipher Complex and Sophisticated Meditations on Bourgeois Discontent and Alienation, Racial and Class Privilege, and the Importance of Boundary Transgression Narratives" at Harvard. They clearly know so much about these subjects. Or maybe they should just keep their infantile mouth shut.

Stan S. gave it a9:
My take is that Majiid's son set up the surveillance probably without his father's knowledge. The long shot towards the end of young Majiid being forcibly taken from the Laurent home iis extremely sad.

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