
As he has shown with The Piano Teacher, Code Unknown, and Funny
Games (among other chilling creations) the Paris-based Austrian filmmaker
Michael Haneke is a peerless artist-provocateur who has never met a situation
of bourgeois stasis he didn’t want to explode—quietly, precisely,
and with devastating effect. Caché, though, may be his best and
most meaningful detonation yet—an absolutely, excitingly unnerving study
in middle-class disequilibrium brought on by realistic urban paranoia and inflamed
by a latent racism in all its ugliness. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche are
brilliantly cast as Georges and Anne, a sophisticated couple tormented by the
arrival of anonymous surveillance videos of their everyday lives. And the more
convinced Georges becomes that he knows the sender, the more breathtaking is
Auteuil’s wisely daring performance. Caché digs deep and
hits a nerve worth inflaming. 117 min. France, 2005 A Sony Pictures Classics
Release.
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