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  Review by Rod Sedgwick ★★★★★ 25

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different versions of "Caché (Hidden)". The point being that, despite what TV shows us, and what the news stories tell us, there is never just one truth, there is only personal truth.”
  -Michael Haneke

  Michael Haneke's Caché is the true definition of a film that requires multiple viewings to fully grasp and appreciate. Upon first viewing of the film one tends to become so swept up in the mystery of trying to…

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 5

  you can read this film as an exploration of guilt and privilege as it applies to a man's unwillingness to accept his part in both and how that man acts as a synecdoche for all of France, but i personally am choosing to read it as a story about one fucked up couple that was still using their VCR in 2005 and how their refusal to simply not watch VHS tapes led to ruin. haneke's in the pocket of big HD-DVD

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  Review by BRAT ★★★★½ 8

  my fav haneke yet!!! consistently fascinated by the way he shoots his stories through such a clinical, cold, “objective” viewpoint, without sacrificing a dash of humanity — that talent is especially on display here, since the topic of surveillance plays such a key role. how is this movie both so dense and so sparse!?

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  Review by Autumn Faust ★★★★★ 7

  This is from an assignment from my Art Philosophy class, hence why I mostly talk about the opening shot. I got an A.

  I often argue for the importance of context in art, and this is one of the ultimate uses of it in film. The opening shot of Michael Haneke’s brilliant film Caché is at first mundane, then terrifying as it recurs throughout the film. It didn’t need to be artfully framed to serve its purpose perfectly and at first glance it isn’t, but, as is always the case with Haneke, there are myriad subtle things that add further to the disturbance.
  The opening shot in question is of a domestic city street in France. It lingers for quite…

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  Review by sadie ★★★★½ 7

  At this point, I should just tattoo Michael Haneke's name across my ass because he fucking owns it. 

  Caché is a tricky, tricky film, and Haneke is a tricky, tricky director. He loves to play games with his audience, much like a cat with a mouse. He relishes revealing the part we play as viewers, and consequently calling into question the act of viewership itself. Wheras Funny Games forces us to engage with our participation in film violence (specifically films of the tortue porn variety), Caché poses a question for the audience: is it possible that we are the stalker?

  There's much to debate about who, exactly, is filming the tapes that terrorize the Laurent family. The brilliant final shot seems to be providing…

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★★ 6

  that Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the tv meme is me whenever I’m watching the ending of Caché

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 12

  Caché is so gripping, its dark tale of bourgeois guilt perfectly suited to Haneke's enchantingly brutal style. Everything here is too close to reality in an audio and visual sense, making it never feel quite right in the best way possible. Caché is a film about dredging up secrets and the way that guilt lingers and festers. The subtext about colonialism and society having never owned up to its wrongs from prior years is something everyone analysing Caché seems to draw upon. But I feel it extends beyond that to 21st century phenomena and consequences. There's more than one allusion to trouble in the Middle East, which seems a fantastic example of how past wrongs now bleed into our present.…

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★★ 2

  I'm not even going to begin trying to decipher this complex web of mystery and deception that I just witnessed. After a few more viewings, I may be able to provide a better and more informed analysis. What I can say is that this is certainly potentially one of the greatest films of the 21st century, true to what others have told me.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 6

  i mean... ok

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★ 2

  Roger Ebert summed it up best .. CACHÉ is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, inside an Enigma!

  To say Director Michael Haneke is a one of a kind filmmaker is a significant understatement. His ability to subvert the expectations of cinema requires viewers to reach up to his level of visionary brilliance to fully appreciate his work.

  On the surface Cache is a dull French family drama with some solid camera work and a couple shock factor scenes. While I did not that' feel that negatively about it at first, its inner meanings did escape me.

  Haneke says it plainly in his title, which in English means hidden. So that means we have to look closely in order appreciate…

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★½

  This psychological thriller from Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke possesses a tremendous central performance from Juliette Binoche as a wife going through a series of disturbing experiences. The trademark Haneke touches, such as his thoroughly voyeuristic approach and his preference for long shots, assures the film is elevated continuously beyond its rather generic framework.

  The atmosphere generated has a taut and gripping quality and while the storytelling is, at times, intentionally bewildering as well as deciding to leave several of its narrative threads unresolved as it's psychological examinations squirm to the surface together with a commentary on the potency of regretfulness. Caché contains a discernible sense of fear alongside its disquieting rhythms and is a movie that is difficult not to appreciate.

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  Review by Lara Pop ★★★★★ 6

  Turn on tape recorder.

  Michael Haneke, or how to subvert your expectations in the most effective manner. Caché, or how to hide the true focus of your movie in a mysterious tape you can't and won't make sense of because that's the point that it's not the point. Subversion, or how to decode the true focus of the mysterious tape: a man's guilt-ridden conscience over a long-buried childhood deed. Blood all over the screen, or how to make the deadly slit in man's conscience. Static wide shots that do not zoom in on the subject, or how you'll see the focus only after the last shot. By then, the film down memory lane will have finished. But the tape will be forever broken.

  Turn off tape recorder.

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