Caché

Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in Piano Teacher director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical ...more

Critics tended to agree that Michael Haneke's Caché represented a singular vision. What they couldn't mutually reconcile was whether he employed that vision toward a catharsis viewers would find satisfying -- or even accept as an ending for the film. A bracingly simple yet original take on the gradually escalating stalker story, Caché finishes in a way that shouldn't be revealed. In fact, it shouldn't even be hinted at, except that it plays a role in whether the movie is worth recommending. ...more