Thursday, February 09, 2006

Caché

A French movie about a married couple who suddenly starts receiving videotapes of their apartment that indicates to them that they're being spied upon. They are, as they put it, "under surveillance."

The movie is very interesting and very well developed, but while Michael Haneke, the director, is great at generating lots of mysteries and questions, he give us very little in terms of answers.

The puzzling labyrinth he makes us tread has very tall walls that don't let us catch even a glimpse of what might lie just next to us. Even the most shocking image from the movie (one of the most shocking images I've ever seen in a movie) leaves us with several, "but?!"

Caché's cast is led by veterans Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, great at their craft and well matched here as the worried wife aggravated by her husband's secretive ways and guarded behavior.

Grade: 8/10

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