Cache - Hidden -(2005) French Film

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krish

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Normally i am not in the habit of watching to many french films but this one had sub-titles so happne to see it. Actually I liked it a lot. Its a good psychological thriller and has some unusual plots and shots. There was this one shot of a kid chopping the head of a chicken and the checken was flapping all over the place till it dies. !! pretty graphic.

I also saw the behind the scene footage and they seem to have used a Sony cam not sure which one but it certainly didnt look like a regular 35mm film cam. Also another thing that impressed me was that the crew size was very small as well most of the film was shot with natural lighting as i didnt see any major lighting gear in the BTS.

I would be interestd to know what Sony cam that was?

cheers,

-Krish
 
I was really digging this film until the end which just totally left me cold. Sometime I like the open-ended thing, but this time it was just disappointing.

Chris
 
Actually the director "henky" or whatever his name was did mention in the interview that he likes to end his movies un-resolved. His argument was that life is sort of unfinished so there is no need to give everything an end.

But yes i agree it left me cold also.

Yas Kassana, the quality of the movie certainly looked like HD but I would like to know for sure myself,

Cheers,

-Krish
 
I loved the ending. Probably because as I walked out of the packed theater I heard five different takes on what it meant and none of the five agreed with my own interpretation. I'd love to have that kind of debate stir after something I've made.
 
wonderful in that it shows the results of a terrible bit of obscure french-algerian history on a purely human level.
 
i agree that the ending left me cold. when the whole movie revolves around building something up and then the end it just... well it just sucked
 
I just saw this film, and knew I would find a thread about it here on dvxuser (2 threads, in fact). I read an opinion that Cache was a rip-off and that the film cheated the audience. The argument was that the film engrosses the audience in the mystery: who's leaving the tapes, how do they know about his past, how do they get a camera into Majid's apartment? None of these mysteries are resolved, and the viewer certainly expects answers. The reviewer felt that this was bad and lazy writing: setting up impossible situations and then failing to reveal the answers, leaving the audience hanging.

For me, I really liked Cache. I thought it was brilliant, and although I was also left hanging by the unresolved mystery of the tapes and their creation, I found that they were more of a medium to reveal Georges' story. It turned out that the mystery of the tapes gradually became less important to the story, even though they started out being the story. There are many under the surface nuances in the storyline and I enjoyed them, and I can't wait to watch it again to catch what I've missed on the first viewing.

Pacing was a criticism of other viewers--I thought some of the situations had me readjusting myself in my seat with emotional discomfort, and the length of some of the scenes added to that effect. I think we're all too used to fast-paced editing that leaves no dead space at all. This was a change from what I usually see, and I enjoyed it.
 
it's very typical of European films to not let the music do the story telling - contrast that to typical Hollywood films where the score begins when the movie begins and ends when the end credits finish rolling.

Cache is a strange film even by French standards IMO, but it works in putting the audience in the couple's shoes; the audience is teased and annoyed by the camera just as the couple is teased and annoyed by the tapes.

Question: the second last scene, at the orphanage - was it showing Georges being adopted when he was young?
 
chromeboy007 said:
Question: the second last scene, at the orphanage - was it showing Georges being adopted when he was young?
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I believe that is the scene where Majid is being taken from Georges' home to the orphanage.
 
jlabonney said:
I believe that is the scene where Majid is being taken from Georges' home to the orphanage.
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the scene shows a kid being taken from the building into the car, against the kid's wishes.... it's the other way around.
 
Man did I not like this movie. I agree with the reviewer that said this movie builds up a mystery and doesn't resolve it. Oh, the filmmaker says, that's because life is unresolved. Well this isn't life buddy. It's a movie. Next time you want to show me "life", invite me over to your house so I can politely decline instead of sending me to a theatre, expecting an actual story. And if your argument is that life isn't resolved and that's why you didn't resolve the story, well, life doesn't have people leaving tapes on people's steps with chickens dying and boys cutting their throats either. Yet you had no problem putting that in there.

A few days after I saw this, somebody said, "you missed the ending credits! There's a secret in the credits!" And I guess they show the son carousing with someone in the tapes? Uhh, even if that was the secret reveal, what does it even mean??

Bad movie. But good for the filmmakers. It probably cost 10 bucks to make.
 
"life doesn't have people leaving tapes on people's steps with chickens dying and boys cutting their throats either"

If you don' think there are people out there who are capable of such measures...well, then I don't know what to tell you. There's all sorts!

I think Daniel Auteuil & Juliette Binoche are extremely believable as the couple. The variation of their emotions are so finely repressed, and without any traces of exposition. They feel like real people, who are truly trapped in their lives.
 
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c.g._eads said:
Man did I not like this movie. I agree with the reviewer that said this movie builds up a mystery and doesn't resolve it. Oh, the filmmaker says, that's because life is unresolved. Well this isn't life buddy. It's a movie. Next time you want to show me "life", invite me over to your house so I can politely decline instead of sending me to a theatre, expecting an actual story. And if your argument is that life isn't resolved and that's why you didn't resolve the story, well, life doesn't have people leaving tapes on people's steps with chickens dying and boys cutting their throats either. Yet you had no problem putting that in there.

A few days after I saw this, somebody said, "you missed the ending credits! There's a secret in the credits!" And I guess they show the son carousing with someone in the tapes? Uhh, even if that was the secret reveal, what does it even mean??

Bad movie. But good for the filmmakers. It probably cost 10 bucks to make.
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It's quite interesting to read this sort of reviews on the free way as knowing how an european moviemaker thinks his stuff. By the way and chance, did you already know Europe? I mean to live, not visit... On the other hand, the coda belongs to the last shot not to the credits -- that is not hollywood.
 
chromeboy007 said:
the scene shows a kid being taken from the building into the car, against the kid's wishes.... it's the other way around.
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Georges was not adopted. Majid was the son of the people who worked for Georges' parents. George told lies about and to Majid in order to make his parents not adopt Majid. As a result, Georges' parents called the orphanage to take Majid away. The building in the scene is Georges' childhood home.
 
c.g._eads said:
Man did I not like this movie....Bad movie.
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I guess that this film is a "love it" or "hate it" type of movie. Clearly many people thought it was a complete waste of time or a let-down, while I thought it was genius. Days afterwards I'm still thinking about the layers.
 
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