Caché (Escondido)

Paolo Simeone

White privilege according to one of the finest contemporary directors.

Aaron Dillenbeck

First rate proof that tension and uncertainty drives momentum just as quickly as action can. Haneke's ability to let the camera just "observe" is put on full display here and it is used to stunning effect.

Samuel T.

Re-view after so many years. We could talk of bourgeois guilt/ political accountability, or of the claustrophobic books on the shelves that aren't being read vs. the television/ screen that is controlling their/ our lives, or how the infamous last scene is like Géricault's Raft of the Medusa in motion, but it's all likely been said and, so, I'll go lightly fart between the sheets and dream of chicken decapitation.

smndvdcl

"It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you." A psychological tour-de-force of a film. Entertaining? Hell no. It's very mundanity bruises the screen with an implicit counter-punch. Forget 'Funny Games' and 'The White Ribbon', this and 'The Piano Teacher' remain Haneke's most subversive offerings.

ramosbarajas

Haneke's exploration of memories and guilt proves to be an incredible exercise in filmmaking. His austere style augments the realism of his cinema, and forces the viewer to observe the characters and story (something which diagetically is making them uncomfortable to begin with), and all the while he does not offer any answers, merely the pieces to the puzzle. An intelligent, creative film.

Who told you this room exists?

"If you think it's Majid, Pierrot, Georges, the malevolent director, God himself, the human conscience - all these answers are correct. But if you come out wanting to know who sent the tapes, you didn't understand the film. To ask this question is to avoid asking the real question the film raises, which is more: how do we treat our conscience and our guilt and reconcile ourselves to living with our actions." [Haneke]

Nathan Heintz

Brilliant, in a way that is not visible on the surface. Haneke leaves so much to the imagination that a great mystery is left hanging in the folds of the mundane. Not a thriller exactly, but it is Hitchcock-esque. The photography is beautiful and stark, seen through the eyes of an unidentified, disembodied observer. Watch carefully! Appears simple but is rich with detail. A wonderful metaphor is hidden in this film.

Mafalda

Such a great film - in those scenes where there was silence and the camera wasn't moving you felt the suffering the characters were going through. Strong. Totally recommend it.