Cache

Having not been to France, I must say I have a growing collection of French films that I am very proud to present, and Cache is amongst them.

This movie opens to a upper-echelon family, the Laurents home being filmed for more than an hour. The problem is: Who is filming them? Why are they being filmed? They receive pictures that look like childish scribbles of decapitated chickens complete with blood along with the tapes of someone filming them. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Juliette Binoche (who plays his wife) are The Laurents. Casting did their homework! Great job.

Not knowing too much about Haneke (the director), and not having seen any of his other films, I come to learn (thanks to this site!) that this movie has political undertones as well. Wow. All that and it has politics in it too...

Georges is the host of a TV show where they discuss books, and his wife works for a publisher as well. So their world revolves around the printed word so to speak. Then the tapes come, and we actually get to see them. Sometimes, you'll feel tempted to want to zip through it too George visits his Mom (who's not feeling well) and asks about old times. This is where Georges remembers that they had an Algerian boy staying with them. Georges kills a chicken and blames (or sets it up) so that the Algerian boy gets into trouble, and gets sent away.

This sends George into trying to track down the then-boy now Algerian man (who has a son as well) to confront (and probably to apologize) but when the pictures and videos keep coming, he doesn't know what to do!

One thing that makes this movie creepy is the possibility of this happening, and even more so the lack of a soundtrack. There are parts where you'd expect to hear those orchestra hits, but because you don't it makes it even MORE REALISTIC. You were THERE. There's no soundtrack to real life. If anything, you'll be careful about what you do as a person! AWESOME FLICK! Don't rent, just buy it. It's THAT good!