Film Review: Cache (Hidden)
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| Daniel Auteil and Juliette Binoche |
In French with English subtitles
Michael Haneke is a two-time winner of Palm D'Or at Cannes Film festival: The White Ribbon (2009) and Love/Amour (2012). In 2005, he made CACHE (Hidden) with Daniel Auteil (as Georges) and Juliette Binoche (Anne, George's wife) leading the cast. Georges, Anne, and their son are a typical middle-class European family (in Paris). Tension and paranoia surface when mysterious videotapes clad in paper with morbid drawings appear on their doorstep. Initially the tapes show recorded surveillance of their house's facade. Everyone is terrified until Georges suspects these may have connection to his past.
What I like about the movie is that, despite its slow pace, it elicited sustained intrigue and interest in me, that I felt much involved or concerned and terrified, too. The ending is one that may elicit different interpretations. I like films that don't spoon-feed; this is one of such films.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
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