Review of Caché (2005) by Shane S — 16 May 2012

âCachà (C)â? is a typical example of a Michael Haneke film that makes film festival audiences and critics sing wild praises but leaves me cold. This thriller of a family who start receiving threat letters and videotapes with footage of their front door begins interestingly enough, but unforgivable plot holes and implausible dialog turn the thing sour soon enough.

Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche give great performances as the threatened heads of the family, but they canâ(TM)t hold the whole movie together on their own. The tension of the storytelling simply wonâ(TM)t hold, even though there are some truly marvelous individual scenes along the way. I am also not a fan of the admittedly unique ending, which is interesting as a case of cinematic plotting but doesnâ(TM)t really work in the context of the story, making the whole piece rather difficult to decipher. âCachà (C)â? seems to be more of an exercise in structure than an independent and meaningful piece of art, which it by all accounts and purposes should have been.