I didn't see past the first hour. It was like watching paint dry.

Haneke is playing games again. One of his best.

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.

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.

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.

It functions well as a thriller to an extent - it is genuinely extremely tense in places, though not always for the reasons you'd expect - but even better as an anti-thriller of sorts as we look at the results the tapes have on the family as Haneke looks both at guilt but also at how people keeping things hidden effects the way they act and how this can damage relationships. SPOILERS: And for those wondering it was Haneke that sent the tapes.

Brilliant.

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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.

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.

A disturbing study of guilt. Unpleasant but well made.

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.

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.

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?

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.

....oh, the ending...

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.