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Writer:
Michael Haneke (screenplay)
Release Date:
5 October 2005 (France)
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Plot:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on its front porch that may be the direct result from an event from years ago. full summary | add synopsis
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21 wins
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22 nominations
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In the village of the damned
(From The Guardian - Film News. 14 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Haneke: I may collaborate with Houellebecq
(From The Guardian - Film News. 13 November 2009, 5:32 AM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 14 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Haneke: I may collaborate with Houellebecq
(From The Guardian - Film News. 13 November 2009, 5:32 AM, PST)
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Global Paranoia and Responsibility Made Very Personal
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Daniel Auteuil | ... | Georges Laurent | |
| Juliette Binoche | ... | Anne Laurent | |
| Maurice Bénichou | ... | Majid | |
| Annie Girardot | ... | Georges's Mom | |
| Bernard Le Coq | ... | Georges's Editor-In-Chief | |
| Walid Afkir | ... | Majid's Son | |
| Lester Makedonsky | ... | Pierrot Laurent | |
| Daniel Duval | ... | Pierre | |
| Nathalie Richard | ... | Mathilde | |
| Denis Podalydès | ... | Yvon | |
| Aïssa Maïga | ... | Chantal | |
| Caroline Baehr | ... | Nurse | |
| Christian Benedetti | ... | Georges's Father | |
| Philippe Besson | ... | TV Guest | |
| Loic Brabant | ... | Police Officer No. 2 (as Loïc Brabant) |
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Rated R for brief strong violence.
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117 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Certification:
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
Sweden:15 |
Brazil:16 |
UK:15 |
Czech Republic:15 |
Norway:15 |
Ireland:16 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Finland:K-15 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Netherlands:16 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Germany:12 |
Malaysia:(Banned) |
Argentina:13 |
Japan:PG-12 |
Australia:MA |
Hungary:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Italy:T |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:15 |
New Zealand:R16 |
USA:R
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In Pierrot's bedroom there are movie posters for Lost in Space (1998), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Van Helsing (2004) and In Hell (2003).
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Continuity: In the opening scene we see the Laurent residence from a stationary camera. Three roses are visible in a window box on the left. In the same setting late in the film after much passage of time, the roses are unchanged and in the same positions.
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References Open Water (2003)
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"Caché (Hidden)" uses the visual power of film to create an escalating examination of contemporary paranoia and personal global responsibility the way Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film "The Conversation" did with sound and fictional criminals.
Writer/director Michael Haneke plays visual tricks on the audience as voyeurs from the opening shot, much as he did with "Code Inconnu," as he coyly plays with technology, building on the pervasive surveillance potential of our times.
The comfortable upper middle class life of married intellectuals Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche is more and more disrupted by spooky video and drawings from some kind of stalker. With a bit heavy-handed constant background TV news coverage about terrorism and other violence in the MidEast, as well as too much irony that Auteuil works on TV (evidently in yet another book discussion show like the central narcissist in "Look At Me (Comme une image)"), race is quickly introduced as a flash point in contemporary Paris from a brief street confrontation and reinforced with Auteuil's flashback dreams of his youth.
While the political angles are obvious, the Hitchcockian tension is very effectively built up (though not narratively resolved even as some secrets are revealed that lead to other inscrutabilities), not just as we see Auteuil repeatedly lie and Binoche practically disintegrate from nerves, but through sudden violence.
While we never understand who all is lying and who isn't, the film further plays on the truth that visual images don't in fact communicate the reality of a situation and can be misleading about relationships, particularly once paranoia has destroyed trust. The film also raises the question if people change their behavior if they know they are being watched and that you can't really hide from your past. Cynically, but perhaps honestly as opposed to in "Crash," here there is no easy resolution of acceptance of guilt and responsibility in personal lives any more than there is in the legacy of colonialism and racism.
Not only is the past never dead, but the film keeps repeating issues of not just am I my brother's keeper, but the sins of the father are revisited on the sons, such that it's important to keep watching even as the credits start to appear at the end (there was much shouting when some folks got up to leave too soon, blocking cryptic clues to those behind them).
The subtitles are very poorly done, with many scenes having them white on white, instead of the much easier to read yellow.