Barnes & Noble

This fascinating French drama -- a multiple winner in Cannes (2005) and the subject of considerable critical acclaim -- has the hallmarks of a thriller but digs deeply into darker psychological territory. Director Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher) employs a more conventional narrative approach than his earlier films as a platform for exploring issues of willful amnesia and repressed guilt. Erudite, smug TV talk show host Georges (Daniel Auteuil), his wife, Anne (Juliette Binoche), and their 12-year-old son, Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky), find their placid bourgeois existence disrupted by the anonymous deliveries of videotapes apparently shot right outside their home. The tapes, along with a succession of cryptic phone calls, convince Georges that his family is being stalked by a voyeur with sinister intentions; but he knows not why. Slowly, George’s complacency, his refusal to accept responsibility for earlier actions, and his vigorous denial of personal guilt begin to surface. Revealing the identity of the tormentor isn’t Haneke’s primary goal: Rather, it is the baring of Georges’s soul that becomes paramount in this deliberately paced, provocative film. With skillful performances by two of France’s most popular and accomplished actors, Cache dares to unsettle, as well as intrigue, its audience. Ed Hulse

All Movie Guide

Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical middle-class European family, but when a series of mysterious videotapes accompanied by morbid drawings reveal that someone has been monitoring their house, Georges begins to suspect that his past has come back to haunt him. It was during France's occupation of Algeria that Georges wronged a young Algerian boy named Majid (Maurice Bénichou), and as the enraged father and husband begins tracking down his former friend, the line between victim and predator becomes increasingly blurred. Jason Buchanan

Product Details

• UPC: 043396138759
• Source: SONY PICTURES
• Region Code: 0
• Aspect Ratio: Alternate Wide Screen (1.78:1)
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Español
• Time: 1:58:00
• Sales Rank: 24,986

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