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Director:
Michael Haneke
Screenplay:
Michael Haneke
Cast:
Georges: Daniel Auteuil
Anne: Juliette Binoche
Pierrot: Lester Makedonsky
Majid: Maurice Benichou
Awards:
Best Director, Cannes Film Festival (2005) Best Director,
Best film, Best Actor (Daniel Auteuil)
European Film Awards (2005) Best Foreign Language Film,
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2005)
Running time: 117’
Production: France / Austria Germany / Italy, 2005
Rating: Restricted (strong violence)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor:
New Yorker Films
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“Tempting
as it is to dismiss ‘Caché’ as a liberal
guilt trip in the guise of a thriller, it is at the same
time hard to deny its creepy, insinuating power. Nor is
it possible to tune out its accusatory message. Civilization
and barbarism are not antithetical, Mr. Haneke insists,
but adjacent, perhaps even identical.”
A.O. Scott, The New York Times |
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Georges, the
television host of a literary magazine, and his wife Anne
are living a perfect life of modern comfort and security.
One day, their world is disrupted when they receive a videotape
from an anonymous source. On it, they discover that their
house had been filmed by a hidden camera. As more tapes arrive
wrapped in drawings that are disturbingly violent and personal,
the walls of security that Georges and Anne have felt around
them begin to crumble. Georges launches his own investigation
and secrets from his past are revealed. As a young child,
Georges was confronted by his parents’ wishes to adopt
Majid, the son of their Algerian farm workers who disappeared
in Paris during the police brutality that followed the October
17, 1961 demonstration. Georges made up a lie about Majid
who was put into foster care. As this memory resurfaces, Georges
is faced with the fact that Majid’s life could have
turned out differently if he had stayed with his family. He
could have received an education but instead endured a life
of poverty. A psychological thriller that masterfully brings
the viewer into the story, Caché is as much a searing
commentary on France’s bourgeoisie and its colonial
heritage as it is about father-son relationships.
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