Sunday, February 15, 2015

Caché (2005)



A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

Ingenious, unpitying (and dark-humored) analysis of bourgeois deception and disavowel of responsibility, reminiscent of Claude Chabrol's best attempts; the mysterious 'Peeping Tom' as MacGuffin is a wisely used as trigger, but is also slightly distracting.

Maltin***: "Writer-director Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER) has constructed another icily meticulous, if protracted, drama, framed by a realistic portrait of a marriage and augmented with references to recent French film history."



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