Cache (Hidden) Critic Reviews

A perplexing and disturbing film of great effect.Read the full review

Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.Read the full review

The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.Read the full review

A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality.Read the full review

Haneke echoes the theme of Hitchcock's "Rear Window": Moviemaking is basically an act of voyeurism. We secretly examine people's lives in every movie. But in this one, there is a hidden camera, a movie within the movie as it were, forcing us to observe a character along side a mysterious stranger.Read the full review

Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.Read the full review

Caché is unsettling and tense, even shocking. And its story of enduring tensions between an Algerian immigrant and a well-off French family is particularly timely.Read the full review

Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level.Read the full review

While this film can seem politically simplistic, it is nonetheless psychologically astute, and more complicated than it at first appears.Read the full review