Caché

Caché

2005
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 57m
Georges (Auteuil), a television talk show host, and his wife Anne (Binoche), are living the perfect life of modern comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why... (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Caché

2005
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 57m
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Rated 03 Sep 2009
93
97th
The voyeuristic nature of Haneke's masterpiece is incredibly effective and creepy. It's amazing how something so slight can feel so epic, but it's the perfect example of how cinema can manipulate its audience while not seeming to do much at all.
Rated 07 Nov 2009
8
82nd
This was a good movie but initially that ending left me feeling a bit dry. But after thinking about it for awhile I think I know what it all means. Definitely not a movie for the casual movie watcher. Has a couple awesome bloodshed scenes and the camera work was incredible. The first half was much better than the 2nd though.
Rated 14 Apr 2008
75
93rd
An amoral film, but I think it was supposed to be the opposite. I don't think it works as intended at all, but that doesn't matter very much, because it is so well made in a cinematographical sense. Reminiscent of Blowup. Very strange, but hard to let go of. Of course, I always was a sucker for minimalism, and ambiguity, which this has in spades.
Rated 22 Jan 2009
75
65th
I didn't really care for the anti climatic ending, but that might be because I was misinformed of its length and expected there to be 20 minutes more. I maintain that this is one of those films that you're not supposed to get completely, and it baffles me that people can dislike a film simply because they do not understand it. Judging from the amount of comments here complaining about that fact it seems a lot of people miss the point. Symbolism and ambiguity aplenty, just the way I like it.
Rated 28 Apr 2009
4
93rd
Subtle treatment of guilt (collective as well as individual) and moral questions in a voyeuristic package. Intense and ambiguous, but more than watching the film itself, it's the thoughts you are left with that make this one a masterpiece.
Rated 19 Jan 2010
4
70th
Plays with subjectivity and uncertainty in very interesting ways. It's sort of a slow burn, never quite putting you on the edge of your seat but always leaving you with a sense of discomfort (though there are a couple of truly shocking moments). Ultimately, it raises more questions than it gives answers, and while I imagine this will frustrate the hell out of a lot of people, I found it very compelling.
Rated 25 Dec 2012
8
78th
A brilliantly crafted thriller that skillfully involves its audience in its reflective process. As a result of our distorted expectations, damaged after years of intensive mainstream movie-watching, we get sent on a wild-goose chase by asking ourselves all the wrong questions and getting all the wrong answers in return. And Haneke pulls it off swimmingly. Will benefit from repeat viewings, no doubt about it.
Rated 08 Sep 2013
5
70th
on guilt. fairly unsatisfying by the end as the message doesn't live up to its delivery - but it's still good delivery, watching a story of past grievances unfold with long static takes. i know little of this french/algerian thing, it seems like there's something attempted there - but the metaphor seems doubtful.
Rated 02 Apr 2016
60
48th
Haneke is at his best when he isn't being didactic. Unfortunately that's rare, and Hidden is ostensibly a white liberal guilt film about France's mistreatment of Nigeria disguised as an urban thriller with zero thrills (because he is deconstructing the genre dummy!). This is unfortunate because the scenario does raise important questions about our collective and individual obligations to our fellow man, and there are a few effective scenes, but there is less than meets the eye. Much less.
Rated 07 Feb 2007
76
58th
I liked how it worked as an allegory of France/Algeria (a situation I don't know a hell of a lot about, but I know enough to recognize the allegory) and how it worked on just the personal level of a man coping with guilt and conscience. The movie has characters making those kind of bad decisions that it hurts, physically hurts you to watch because you want them to do the right thing. However, the "Where's Waldo?" style ending really sucks.
Rated 09 Jul 2007
4
83rd
If you miss the last five minutes, you've missed the entire film. Tense and creepy.
Rated 11 Aug 2007
99
98th
Haneke delivers an amazing directing job, getting the most out of the particulars of his storyline and proving how much drama can be generated simply by holding a shot. Auteuil is outstanding, but he is surpassed by Juliette Binoche, liberated from dismal American roles and conveying every bit of her character's confined maelstrom of emotions with bracing command. The film also includes masterful cinematography from Christian Berger.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
54th
I guess I liked it. I don't know. Are we really supposed to have an opinion?
Rated 03 Oct 2007
80
61st
Stylistically this was a very facinating film. The entire film is shot in an odd voyeuristic style that fits very well with the movie and always kept me interested. The plot is enough to keep you guessing, but the problem is that while it's set up as a mystery, the mystery is really just a tool for the other things the film is trying to say. As such, the abrupt ending works well with the other parts of the film but really diminishes enjoyment of the mystery, killing the movie's driving force.
Rated 09 Nov 2007
58
32nd
Not really bad and much more engaging than usual Haneke stuff, but it certainly marks his limits as a filmmaker, cause I'm sure at the hands of a more sensitive director it would have been a penetrating character study (which is strange, since he wrote the really fine script as well). As it is, the political and social, and in film-terms the formal, interest him much more than the human drama neglected on the side.
Rated 07 Feb 2008
45
22nd
If you don't like open endings, don't invest time into this one. If you like them, then knock yourself out.
Rated 08 Feb 2008
75
36th
Really lulls you in (and boy is that an understaement) with endless scenes of people watching fairly static video images. And while I normally enjoy this type of psychological approach to screwing with the viewers, I was still put off by it. There were two GREAT moments of surprising and visceral bloodshed, I'll give it that. But anyway, since he likes to screw around with the viewers, I'm giving Haneke's film the most banal, average score in the books, something he would undoubtedly hate.
Rated 01 Mar 2008
65
40th
I didn't get it.
Rated 27 Jul 2009
80
76th
My first Haneke, and this is scary shit, quietly painful and demanding. Haneke establish an infernal ambiguousness and soundless horror which fascinates, frightens and demand participation. Does it taste good? No. But it's good, it's great, it's cinema as conversation - the discourse is the narrative, the discourse is the "message". As said: it's silent in its horror, it's fucking brutal without being brutal at all, it's demanding in its unfixed nature...
Rated 01 Mar 2010
92
97th
I love this movie. Last scene makes it. It's a paranoid, tense, frustrating, and ultimately brilliant film. No, it's not easy to enjoy, but you don't watch a Haneke film for basic entertainment.
Rated 07 Aug 2010
75
54th
Not a straight forward film by any stretch; the devil is in the details in this one. Unfortunately neither the devil nor the details are particularly interesting.
Rated 04 Mar 2012
80
11th
Sometimes you hide things so well you forgot what they were and where they were. Something along these lines happened to the "message" that's "hidden" in the movie.
Rated 24 Apr 2012
78
86th
Fucking Michael Haneke...
Rated 29 Apr 2012
60
25th
It was ideal for a great nap.
Rated 07 Oct 2015
90
93rd
A very detailed film that evoked this sinking feeling while watching. Like I knew something the characters didn't but I actually didn't know shit. My favourite Haneke film to date.
Rated 15 Sep 2016
85
93rd
Thematically and stylistically brilliant. A mystery film where the building of suspense is very subtle yet effective. One problem I had was with Georges' secretive attitude that got used as a shortcut to keep the story's otherwise impeccable finesse intact. The film should have relied less on the problematic nature of the main character's persona.
Rated 20 Jul 2018
88
83rd
Haneke has a way with creating this unease throughout the film, catching you off guard with a grotesque moment, and then leaves you wondering how painful the story really is. He's brilliant.
Rated 01 Dec 2006
94
84th
This movie is shocking, a lot more shocking than any horror movie ever could be. It challenges the audience to think and is brilliantly directed by Michael Haneke. Awesome.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
70
41st
Interesting thriller that is a little hard to follow at times. The level of eerieness is Hitchcockian, but the actual suspense itself falls short.
Rated 24 Jul 2007
85
87th
Very compelling mystery made with precision and restraint.
Rated 27 Jul 2007
3
62nd
I love this because I adore Michael Haneke's way of shooting pictures. The story is quite conventional and not that smart per se, though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
82
50th
I liked this a lot, but I'm hesitant because of the undertones of a moral lesson. Nonetheless, it's pretty intriguing.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
78
89th
Extremely well done, if partially derivative of other movies. Having previously seen THE PIANO TEACHER and subsequently seen FUNNY GAMES and THE WHITE RIBBON, however, I do tend to feel that he is constantly delivering very similar messages about the way in which oppression or repression breeds counter-violence. May be less than the sum of its parts, but still a very affecting cinematic experience.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
56th
Good and thouroughly suspenseful from beginning to end, but themes could've been explored in greater detail.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
36
6th
A left-wing political allegory, not a proper mystery film. Terrible script
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
96th
Best sequence (and lead up to a sequence) in a 2005 release, which I shall refer to simply as "cutting Majid out of the movie."
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
74th
Best new film I saw in the 2005-2006 period.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
67
50th
A frustrating experience that such a profound and gripping idea for a film would play out as little more than a melancholy musing.
Rated 26 Aug 2007
1
0th
A movie that thinks it is really changing film forever. It ends up being a movie that purposefully tries to piss off the audience and gets people to like it because they think maybe they just missed what it was about. It wasn't about shit. No matter what the racist director wants you to believe.
Rated 19 Oct 2007
96
80th
Intriguing mystery that educates the audience about an actual horrific event
Rated 17 Nov 2007
100
99th
17 Kasim 07 - dvd. 17:55te bitti. gecmisle yuzlesmek ve sucluluk duymak uzerine yapilmis, rahatsiz edici bir haneke filmi. (ilk verdiğgim not; 80) / 2 Mart 2013, istanbul modern. bade ile &
Rated 07 Feb 2008
84
45th
This film is very well made. The pacing, the acting, and the cinematography are superb. But I just didn't get it. Seriously. I think I know what Haneke was trying to say, but the allegories just don't make sense. Maybe I'll warm up to it after a rewatch. Spoiler: However, I simpy think that hinging a movie about guilt on the actions of a six year old is complete nonsense. There is no guilt in any sense of the word.
Rated 25 Jun 2008
70
18th
Seriously overated French film by Haneke one which I do not get.
Rated 26 Oct 2008
75
59th
Interesting, very good open ending though. And extremely heavy handed symbolism.
Rated 14 Nov 2008
70
77th
I like the Haneke experience. A film with no 'satisfaction', but it's perfect.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
90
97th
As the title indicates, this is about what's hidden beneath the facade of normal everyday lives. Haneke's best film works equally well as a compelling mystery and as a portrayal of a marriage being torn apart at the, on the surface, perfect seams.
Rated 23 Dec 2008
75
57th
Fine movie, if a little dense, a little underplotted and a little dry. Great performances and imagery win over the muleheaded pace, though.
Rated 02 Jan 2009
90
69th
Wanted to watch that movie ever since it came out! Not sure if I get the ending though. Good movie. Troubling, but good.
Rated 16 Feb 2009
65
6th
You know, it almost had me and then it just ended. Cruel, unusual, and totally unnecessary
Rated 27 Feb 2009
85
89th
A movie that fried my brain. Loved the natural dialogue and loved Juliette Binoche.
Rated 26 Mar 2009
88
63rd
Good thriller that takes its time unfolding....The ending is a bit puzzling however....
Rated 20 May 2009
73
83rd
Good Movie
Rated 25 May 2009
90
85th
Great as always!
Rated 02 Jul 2009
81
73rd
Creepy, restrained, but ultimately compelling.
Rated 07 Aug 2009
4
87th
Well made, well acted, fairly boring story, which was the point I guess. The symbolism is usually well measured, but becomes a bit too heavy handed at times.
Rated 09 Aug 2009
94
97th
Much more thought-provoking and accessible than any of Haneke's previous work. Cache is a mystery that is more about asking questions than it is about answering them, and the story serves as a metaphor for the types of troubling events that haunt our pasts.
Rated 01 Sep 2009
73
64th
Viewers looking for answers to the questions the movie throws at us won't be satisfied. Cache is a movie that became better after reading more about it, but the initial resolution left me with a shrug. Still, the camerawork is excellent (blurring the line between reality and the recordings) and the most shocking scene came out of nowhere and left me completely stunned.
Rated 22 Oct 2009
100
99th
An absolute masterwork, blindingly original, thoroughly gripping from start to finish, a brilliant meditation on voyeurism.
Rated 22 Nov 2009
38
23rd
A terrorized family type of thriller, actually a paper thin political allegory about French collective guilt for Algiers (and by extention, partakes in the western self-flaggelation for Middle East issues past and present). Weak and unsatisfying as a drama/thriller and rather blunt as an allegory. Kind of like with Haneke's earlier Funny Games, his transparent attempt to play with viewer expectations paradoxically renders the movie predictable.
Rated 07 Dec 2009
74
70th
Unpleasant, constant tension, and endless ambiguity. Very well done
Rated 28 Dec 2009
80
91st
You're left wracking your brain, and I think that's what he wanted.
Rated 13 Jan 2010
75
65th
Wet, french, gay and on fire. Engaging film about hidden guilt, I hated the ending though.
Rated 30 Jan 2010
72
33rd
My score is an average: 89 for the first 115 minutes or so, and then a hugely disappointing 1 for the stupid, crap, awful, yet clearly 'arty' end... that's the problem with these 'artsy movies'... they go out onto a really long but creative rope, and then find they either run out of money or ideas, and so they just slap 'fin' on it and it's done... i have a name for that... it's called phoning it in, and I was super disappointed by it --- and a movie ain't much without a good ending.
Rated 18 Feb 2010
8
62nd
beautifully shot with great acting and a very interesting theme, however as i find with most of haneke's movies, it feels a bit empty, not as in lacking subtext but as in it was holding something back from you. i'd watch it again though
Rated 12 Mar 2010
76
67th
....oh, the ending...
Rated 17 Mar 2010
75
71st
Cache is supposed to be a complex metaphorical representation of the colonial oppression of Algerians & guilt or some such. In it he's built up a creepy mystery and then leaves us wondering with an ending (yes I got it) that just adds to the questions. Haneke's direction has several brilliant moments but the overall package feels like it was engineered to browbeat a few socially "profound" messages for us to ponder upon after the credits roll. To be honest I felt somewhat cheated after the ride.
Rated 24 Mar 2010
90
55th
My favourite Haneke film, yet. The constant intensity of the events, combined with the oblique ambiguity as to the origin of the antagonist, and the "shock-event" at the end makes for a wonderfully unsettling watch.
Rated 08 Apr 2010
90
95th
Brilliant.
Rated 11 May 2010
30
2nd
I didn't see past the first hour. It was like watching paint dry.
Rated 13 May 2010
5
80th
Haneke is playing games again. One of his best.
Rated 28 May 2010
93
88th
When this family starts to break down, it feels more raw, more real than anything I've seen on the screen in years. Haneke's precision is incredible.
Rated 26 Jun 2010
80
48th
A disturbing study of guilt. Unpleasant but well made.
Rated 24 Jul 2010
100
94th
Very little is resolved in this film. In fact, nothing is. We are invited to view the action for ourselves, and interpret it in any way we like. This film may infuriate some, but is one of the most vivid and though provoking films I have seen. A masterpiece.
Rated 25 Jul 2010
89
79th
Cache is another tense and unsettling thriller from Michael Hanake. Slow and made with almost an invisible style, it drones on a lethargic pace, but the impact is hammer strong. Cache does what so many movies fail; it haunts you. Dare I say another cinenamatic piece of beauty from Hanake?
Rated 08 Aug 2010
88
99th
Manages to balance a sinister and paranoid tone with smart political undertones. Without giving anything away, Caché has one of the most perfectly shocking moments in film. It's been months since I've seen this and I still can't shake it.
Rated 14 Sep 2010
70
38th
A relatively effective who-dunnit film (without the who-dunnit), but it seems to put itself on an intellectual pedestal, a Haneke habit that's more restrained in some of his other films.
Rated 20 Sep 2010
100
94th
WOW. Stuck with me for days after I saw it. You keep going over and over it in your head. Make sure you think about it for a few days before you watch it a second time.
Rated 04 Nov 2010
65
29th
A bit too allegorical for my tastes (though French audiences might find it more affecting). Would've been great if they'd found some tasty wrap-up; instead it just turned into a fable. The CliffNotes crowd may love such shenanigans, but to me it just amounts to a cheat. This one demonstrates once again that the number of movies that start out great and end satisfactorily is a VERY small subset of those that start out great. Btw Binoche resembled Mary Gross to an uncanny degree at times.
Rated 28 Nov 2010
40
97th
"A mind-blowing modern allegory in the exceedingly persuasive guise of an art house thriller." - Joe McGovern
Rated 14 Jan 2011
83
59th
Unsettling and intense, remarkably so for a film in which so little actually happens.
Rated 17 Jan 2011
1
0th
Haneke's aspiration to artistry is hideously high-toned.
Rated 28 Feb 2011
66
58th
Somehow, Haneke makes stupidity seem artistic.
Rated 03 Mar 2011
86
95th
Haneke builds up an interesting mystery just so he can say "fuck you" in the end to everyone that was taking it at face value and expecting something conventional. I love it.
Rated 27 Mar 2011
60
85th
Well-chilled French thriller comparable in degrees centigrade to Time Out, With a Friend Like Harry, Merci pour le Chocolat, Red Lights, et al. Haneke lowers the temperature a few degrees nearer the deep freeze, even, than the French ideal. He gets unostentatious fine performances from Auteuil and a thicker-in-the-middle Binoche, and it's always good to see the venerable Girardot (the mother in the country).
Rated 04 Jun 2011
82
88th
Through this problematic bourgeois family, Haneke shoots a solid statement on memory and the troubles it could bring to someone who just chooses to forget a dark, somber past. And when it happens, sometimes things from the past just return stronger -- there is a political subtext here, I think, because european countries must have forgotten what their old governments did to many poor nations, and today they don't understand what's happening there, this wave of revolt from africans to arabs.
Rated 06 Jul 2011
68
71st
I saw this once after it first came out and found it completely tedious. After studying modern French history a few years later, however, I watched it again, and my opinion of it arose significantly.
Rated 16 Jul 2011
93
58th
Great twist.
Rated 26 Aug 2011
80
85th
Profoundly disturbing and intentionally inconclusive, "Caché" digs deep and some of the insights are fascinating. Auteuil and Binoche deliver strong performances, while the static, often unedited shots manage to immerse us in a creepy atmosphere of constant menace. The ambiguity Haneke purposefully constructs can be frustrating and the final, long shot will certainly disappoint some -but the ride is intense, the violence shaking and the hidden implications never fail to intrigue (and frighten).
Rated 05 Oct 2011
6
29th
boring
Rated 14 Nov 2011
92
93rd
A difficult film to get your head around, but worth the effort. Wonderfully acted, good message. Watch the final shot closely.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
60
20th
#801
Rated 09 Feb 2012
85
96th
fresh, tasteful and stylistically strong cinematography. terrific acting and atmosphere. really interesting plot, but couldve needed just a little bit higher pace.
Rated 25 Mar 2012
20
4th
Haneke hates his audience and wants to make them feel bad -- this time by boring them to death.
Rated 08 Apr 2012
60
33rd
Sorry, didn't get it.
Rated 19 Apr 2012
85
48th
I need to rewatch it before I can come to a better consensus due to the different levels of storytelling going on, but it was a very good movie. The moment shown on the poster knocked me down.
Rated 10 Jun 2012
65
16th
This movie is great in the 5th dimension, where Haneke's metaphors and macro-meta tricks are unchained from the confines of time, space, and logical narrative. He's so meta he makes David Lynch look like a workman. But I'm over here in the 3rd dimension, and for me a movie cannot be all philosophy and intent - there has to be a movie attached. But Haneke is more interested in turning the camera "on us all." If I wanted a mirror, I'd buy a mirror. But I bought a movie ticket.
Rated 21 Jun 2012
82
71st
81.500
Rated 25 Aug 2012
89
47th
The last scene kicks the whole movie up a couple notches. Left me with a smile.
Rated 21 Oct 2012
93
82nd
Haneke shows considerable depth by weaving the subtlety of the character's subconscious into the trivial domestic life of the petty bourgeoisie, which we are initially meant to sympathize with. Georges Laurent ultimately comes to symbolize the moral hypocrisy that the middle class heartily imbues as his actions (including past actions) increasingly betray his hateful core. After the whole ordeal climaxes with sprays of blood, Laurent has learned nothing, refusing to let his guilt influence him.
Rated 22 Oct 2012
10
2nd
I should have known and checked before watching this. He is also the director from 'Funny Games'. Well, this gave me the same UNsatisfying feeling. Fuck you Michael Haneke.

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