Caché

"Caché" is a French film, it follows a married couple searching for the source of a bunch of mysterious video tapes that keep getting left on their porch, the delivered cassettes get more personal by the day, creating disruption and unbalance in the family's life.

After previously watching "Funny Games" and "Benny's Video", I had no doubt in my mind that I would dislike "Caché" just as much as I disliked the former two, considering they are all directed by the same person, fortunately, Michael Haneke proved me wrong.

Even though the audience is constantly teased by the mystery of the surveillance footage and its origins, that isn't the intended main focus of the film, in fact, knowing the identity of the sender becomes irrelevant by the end of it all. The movie seems to be essentially more about a man's haunting and hidden guilt, his skeletons in the closet, a broken marriage, paranoia, distrust, the clear divide between each social class and the history of Algeria and its impact on France. The viewer understandably gets distracted by the occurring events, and doesn't seem to notice the main message of the film, the bigger picture.

There is some outstanding acting in this picture, especially by Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche and Maurice Bénichou, they work really hard to help build tension and suspense throughout the film, successfully so.

Michael Haneke trusts his audience enough to search for clues and try to piece this puzzle together, by not just dumbing everything down, and that to me is very appreciated.

The more I think about "Caché", the better I like it, and I'm confident that after a second watch it would go down as one of my all time favourites.

"Caché" might not be everyone's cup of tea, in fact it may even anger you, but it is extremely well done for its intended audience, and also has enough going on to hold anyone's interest. This is a high Full Price.