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Caché
[CACHE] Austria, France, Germany, Italy, 2005, 111 min, Color , 35mm Directed By: Michael Haneke EXEC PRODS: Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz PROD: Margaret Menegoz, Veit Heiduschka SCR: Michael Haneke CAM: Christian Berger EDS: Michael Hudecek, Nadine Muse CAST: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Lester Makedonsky |
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Again filming in France, Austrian provocateur Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, The Time of the Wolf) turns to the thriller genre to critique First World complacency and comment acidulously on French-Algerian relations. Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil star as a bourgeois couple who start receiving ominous videotapes on their doorstep, including tapes of themselves... A gripping, tension-filled winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Caché (the word means "hidden") once again proves that Haneke is one of world cinema's greatest directors. "Haneke is not only a master of gripping suspense and muffled violence... but he’s also a sharp observer of human behavior in extreme, crisis situations... Unlike most American suspense thrillers, the tension in all of Haneke’s films derives from and is integral to everyday life. This recurrent motif establishes a direct link between his work and that of the ultimate master of suspense, Hitchcock, whose films are also predicated on the notion of a complacent middle-class existence, shattered by various forces of terror and horror... Haneke is an arthouse auteur, whose oeuvre is marked by a number of persistent issues: the haunting, inevitable effect of the past on the present, personal and collective guilt, paranoia created by and manifest in both the domestic and political arenas, bourgeois complacency, and individuals’ reluctance and inability to take responsibility for their own conduct... [Caché] is an intelligent film for mature viewers that works effectively as a psychological thriller and political allegory." Emanuel Levy The Seventh Continent (89), Benny's Video (92), 71 Fragments of a Chronolgy of Chance (94), Funny Games (97), Code Unknown (00), The Piano Teacher (01), Time of the Wolf (03) |
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