'Caché': French mystery with a politicized agenda
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
From the very first shot — a view of an apartment on a quiet Paris street that's held for several minutes as cars pass and people stroll by — director Michael Haneke puts us on notice. Things are rarely as they seem in "Caché," his coolly elegant French mystery-thriller about an upper-middle class couple whose seemingly perfect lives unravel when they are sent a series of disturbing surveillance tapes.
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Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family — shot secretly from the street — and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. Georges feels a sense of menace hanging over him and his family but, as no direct threat has been made, the police refuse to help.
Sony Pictures Classics
'Caché'
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Lester Makedonsky
Run time: 118 minutes
Release date: Dec. 23, 2005
Rating: R for brief strong violence.
Language: In French with subtitles.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B+
"With its theme of voyeurism, Caché inevitably recalls Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. But Haneke has a more politicized agenda than Hitchcock ever did."
The Palm Beach Post: B
"Through oblique suggestion, director-writer Haneke widens his finger-pointing to issues of national responsibility, ultimately implicating the viewer as well."
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