Cache

Theatrical Release Date: 2005 12 23 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 043396138759

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity]

Summary: 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 middle-class European family, but when a series of mysterious videotapes accompanied by morbid drawings reveal that someone has been monitoring their house, Georges begins to suspect that his past has come back to haunt him. It was during France's occupation of Algeria that Georges wronged a young Algerian boy named Majid (Maurice B?nichou), and as the enraged father and husband begins tracking down his former friend, the line between victim and predator becomes increasingly blurred. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Director – Cannes Film Festival Best Foreign Language Film – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film – San Francisco Film Critics Circle Best Actress – London Film Critics Association Best Foreign Film – London Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film – National Society of Film Critics Best Foreign Language Film – Online Film Critics Association Film Presented – Telluride Film Festival Best Foreign Independent Film – British Independent Film Awards Best European Film – European Film Academy European Film Academy Critics Award 2005 - Prix Fipresci – European Film Academy

Features: ccDocumentary on director Michael Haneke
Behind the scenes of Cach?

Cache

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/27/2006

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD5.0 Dolby Digital 5.0

Runtime: 118 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Cache
1. Chapter 1 [5:14]
2. Chapter 2 [4:04]
3. Chapter 3 [6:04]
4. Chapter 4 [4:37]
5. Chapter 5 [5:42]
6. Chapter 6 [4:12]
7. Chapter 7 [7:31]
8. Chapter 8 [1:52]
9. Chapter 9 [6:41]
10. Chapter 10 [7:50]
11. Chapter 11 [2:40]
12. Chapter 12 [7:26]
13. Chapter 13 [3:57]
14. Chapter 14 [2:15]
15. Chapter 15 [5:50]
16. Chapter 16 [4:34]
17. Chapter 17 [5:03]
18. Chapter 18 [4:07]
19. Chapter 19 [1:22]
20. Chapter 20 [3:03]
21. Chapter 21 [6:13]
22. Chapter 22 [5:38]
23. Chapter 23 [4:26]
24. Chapter 24 [3:22]

Derek Armstrong

Critics tended to agree that Michael Haneke's Cach? 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, Cach? 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. Suffice it to say that the ending is unconventional -- brilliant to some, maddening to others. Fortunately, the journey getting there is rich enough that even the most negative reaction to the conclusion can't spoil the experience on the whole. The eerie surveillance tapes -- which seem to come from a camera angle that couldn't exist in reality -- set the tone, and French acting treasure Daniel Auteuil sustains the tension through a performance of great quiet fear. The eventual revelations of his character Georges' secret guilt, and the details of what he's accused of, are somewhat mundane. But that's beside the point, because Cach? is about subjective rather than absolute emotional damage. Georges may be deserving of these opaque threats and psychically violent intrusions into his domestic world, or he may not, but the film explores how the mere implication of guilt can twist and transform. Juliette Binoche, working in her native French, is equally strong as the wife who must absorb the dissolution of her home life without being offered an explanation for it, even though her husband knows more than he's saying. The film has enough good surprises to offset the debatable ones, and is composed at every level with consummate artistry, so Cach? is an important work. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Aïssa Maïga  Actor 
Denis Podalydès  Actor 
Michael Haneke  Director 
Michael Haneke  Screenwriter 
Margaret Menegoz  Producer 
Veit Heiduschka  Producer 
Michael Katz  Producer 
Daniel Auteuil  Actor 
Juliette Binoche  Actor 
Lester Makedonsky  Actor 
Maurice Bénichou  Actor 
Annie Girardot  Actor 
Bernard Le Coq  Actor 
Daniel Duval  Actor 
Nathalie Richard  Actor 

Country: France,Germany,Italy,Austria