A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Loic Brabant
- Police Officer No. 2as Police Officer No. 2
- (as Loïc Brabant)
Set in France, Georges is a TV Literary Reviewer and lives in a small yet modern town house with his wife Ann, a publisher and his young son Pierrot. They begin to receive video tapes through the post of their house and family, along side obscure child-like drawings. They visit the police with hope of aid to find the stalker, but as there is no direct threat, they refuse to help. As the tapes become more personal, Georges takes it upon himself to figure out who is putting through his family through such horror. A true Michael Haneke Classic. —Jodie Norton
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Will Be Challenging for Americans
This was a very good film, an excellent study in psychological tension. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of Americans or really anyone who isn't very familiar with the French-Algerian war will be able to understand it. It's about the horrors of that war and the French denial of their part in it -- very much tying in to the French youth race riots we saw last year. It also quietly draws some parallels with the war in Iraq. The ending was perhaps much too subtle. Everyone around me as we left the theater here in Los Angeles was expressing confusion. This was an older, more sophisticated audience, too. I don't think they really understood what was happening all along.
That said, it was still fantastic. I'm glad that at least outside of the U.S. it's gotten the recognition it deserves.
That said, it was still fantastic. I'm glad that at least outside of the U.S. it's gotten the recognition it deserves.
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- ladyeuthanasia
- Jan 9, 2006
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