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Cache (Hidden)
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List Price: $14.94
Our Price: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq
Directed By: Michael Haneke
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396138759
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Running Time: 118
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Hidden throughout Caché is the sense that you should be watching every moment in this film closely, just as the protagonists are themselves being watched by someone unknown. Georges and Anne Laurent's (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) enviable lives are terrorized by the sudden arrival on their doorstep of a videotaped recording of their Parisian townhouse. It's nothing but a long, unedited shot of the façade of their house, but it's disturbing nonetheless. Soon another arrives, this time of the farmhouse Georges grew up in, and then another of a car driving down a suburban street, and a walk down a hallway to a low-rent apartment. Again the videos are benign but unsettling. Then the mystery becomes more threatening when they receive gruesome postcards depicting child-like drawings of bloody, dead stick figures. Georges believes he knows who the culprit is, but for reasons all his own refuses to let his wife in on the secret. Clearly more is hidden here than just the identity of their stalker. In Caché, writer and director Michael Haneke skillfully, methodically pulls back multiple layers of deception, like new skin being pulled off an old wound. he masterfully fuses elements of his predecessors to create a film that is haunting and memorable. There is Bergman's fascination with the complexity of relationships, the suspense and lurking danger of Hitchcock, and the unique cinematic sensibility of Antonioni. In fact, the provocative final shot is practically a tribute to The Passenger--a lot of people will want to rewatch it many times to see what they can find in it (if, after watching it, you are still unsatisfied with the resolution, then watch the interview with Haneke in the DVD's special features for his insights). It's a film of great effect and intrigue. There are no easy resolutions, and the answers given in this mystery will only lead to more questions. --Daniel Vancini
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Summary: MICHAEL HANEKE, OPUS 9
Comment: ***** 2005. Written and directed by Michael Haneke. Three prizes at Cannes. Georges is receiving videotapes of himself with his family. Soon he suspects Majid to be the man responsible for this situation. Like Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch or Atom Egoyan, the Austrian director Michael Haneke likes to play with the images. Not the simple images found 24 times in a second on the screen but rather with the recorded images and the way to manipulate them. I found HIDDEN fascinating because, during each scene, I had to discover whether the point of view of the camera was objective or subjective. Highly recommended.
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Summary: subtle and thought-provoking
Comment: Far from being "pretentious," this film was very true to life in its pacing, its unadorned visuality, and its reluctance to give clear-cut answers. It would have been very easy for the director to turn this plot into an overblown thriller of the kind some reviewers seem to have wanted, but I'm glad he didn't.
My criticism is that the film remains something of an intellectual exercise, failing to delve into the characters' psyches as far as it could have done. The dynamics of the husband-and-wife relationship could have helped to supply this psychological depth, but it remains underdeveloped - and I was VERY disappointed to see Juliette Binoche so underused when she was one of the reasons I wanted to see the movie in the first place. (What were they thinking?)
Even so, "Cache" left me thinking, and I can't say that of very many films - hence the 4 stars.
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Summary: No plot, disguised as intelligent
Comment: I eagerly awaited this film, after all the rave reviews I read. After I watched it, I felt glad that the first 20 to 30 minutes were intriguing and promising. But the intrigue went nowhere and the promise was broken. Maybe in France it's considered good for a movie to be all build-up, very little plot development, and then end stupidly and abruptly with nothing explained. Not on this side of the Atlantic. I think this got good reviews because American critics want to appear broad-minded and intellectual, and it looks impressive for them to rave about a European film that Europeans are already raving about. But quite simply, it's a stupid movie.
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Summary: Quel navet !
Comment: Je me suis presque endormi deux soirées de suite et c'est la première fois que je finis un film en 3 jours ! C'est dire ! Un film mortellement ennuyeux, une intrigue (?) qui finit en queue de poire et malgré deux excellents acteurs, il est impossible de trouver ce film palpitant.
J'ai tenu à voir la fin du film pour la seule et unique raison que je m'attendais à une retombée phénoménale (peut-être) et heureusement que j'étais assis, car JE serais tombé sur autre chose !!!
Regarder ce film ou la cheminée crépiter, ça revient au même ; quoique la cheminée vous apportera chaleur et un sentiment de bien-être !
$15 pour ce DVD ??? Jouez plutôt au Lotto. Au moins vous ganerez peut-être au lieu de perdre votre temps avec un film aussi insipide !
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Summary: Good, but what went on here?
Comment: I really enjoyed this French film. I've only seen a handful of them and find them on the whole better written than Hollywood movies. This kept my interest throughout but I must admit the ending baffled me. I really don't know why the going's on here were going on but will watch the special features soon and hopefully find out.
Creepy film, shocking in some places, entertaining throughout.
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