Caché

"Hidden within."

2005 1h 58m FR

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7.0

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89%

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7.3

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★7.0TMDB · 1,313🍅89%Rotten Tomatoes●87Metacritic★7.3IMDB · 88,531

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Synopsis

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As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.

“Hidden within.”

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Cast

Daniel Auteuil
Georges Laurent
Juliette Binoche
Anne Laurent
Annie Girardot
Georges's Mother
Bernard Le Coq
Georges's Editor-In-Chief
Daniel Duval
Pierre
Maurice Bénichou
Majid
Walid Afkir
Majid's Son
Lester Makedonsky
Pierrot Laurent

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Haneke
Writers: Michael Haneke
Languages: French
Countries: France, Austria, Germany, Italy

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 4 countries: France, Austria, Germany, Italy.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Haneke, shot by Christian Berger. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael Hudecek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche and Annie Girardot carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Hidden within.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0387898 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Michael Haneke directs. Christian Berger behind the camera. Michael Hudecek cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in France, Austria, Germany, Italy. Dialogue in French.

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1Released 21 years ago.
2International production across 4 countries: France, Austria, Germany, Italy.
3Directed by Michael Haneke, shot by Christian Berger. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Michael Hudecek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche and Annie Girardot carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Hidden within.".
7IMDB entry: tt0387898 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 23 themes, including "dreams", "paris, france", "upper class", "suppressed past".
9Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Christian Berger
Editing: Michael Hudecek
Production design: Emmanuel de Chauvigny
Costume design: Lisy Christl
Makeup / hair: Laurent Bozzi
Sound: Jean-Paul Mugel
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $8,500,000
Box office: $16,197,824
Return: 191% of budget
Original language: FR
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Caché (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 87/100
IMDB rating: 7.3/10 · 88,531 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

29 wins & 37 nominations total

European Film Academy Critics Award
European Film Award for Best Actor
European Film Award for Best Film
European Film Award for Best Editor
Meeting Point Europe Award
European Film Award for Best Director

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CinemaSerf2024-04-22
★ 7/10
On the face of it, "Georges" (Daniel Auteuil) and wife "Anne" (Juliette Binoche) are a successfully married couple. Both working in publishing, he has his own review programme on television whilst their teenage son "Pierrot" (Lester Makedonsky) remains pretty distant from their professional and social lives. When "Georges" starts receiving anonymous VHS cassettes things become much more tense and the strains on this family more pronounced. These tapes initially begin by surveilling their home, but gradually they become more penetrative and invasive. The police can't do anything and their neighbours have seen nothing untoward locally. Then he discovers what might just be a clue and that takes him to "Majid" (Maurice Bénichou) who lives with his grown-up son (Walid Afkir). It transpires that his family has history with this man. In fact, he is all but an half-brother to "Georges" and after a rather frank conversation he assures him that he has nothing to do with these intimidatory packages. When "Pierrot" makes an unscheduled overnight stay with a friend, the parents become frenzied and it looks like whoever has set out to wreck their lives might just have accomplished their task! Pretty much from the start, Auteuil is on good form as the man about to blow his top. His character is becoming more and more frustrated and his portrayal really counters well with Binoche's sparingly but potently delivered wife who is largely unaware of all the pieces of her husband's familial jigsaw as they fall into place. When tragedy strikes - only a matter of time - the tension is raised another notch, but will we ever discover who is doing what to whom? Or why? The backstory here is as important as what's going on presently, and that information isn't presented as fluidly as I'd have liked. We are not really given much information to go on, and when we are it is almost as if it's there to justify the plot we are seeing unfold rather than the other way around. That said, it's still quite a tensely directed and paced affair that is worth watching.

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