A family gets video tapes by post indicating that their home is under surveillance. With some clues that the miscreant sends, the husband relates that to one of his own guilts from the past. He has trouble with his wife, their confused child and a suicide makes things worse. The video tapes do what they were intended to do – give him pill enforced sleeps!
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Language:
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French
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Running Time:
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118 min
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Rating:
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R
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Release date:
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5 October 2005
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Directed by:
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Michael Haneke
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Produced by:
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Veit Heiduschka
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Written by:
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Michael Haneke
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Starring:
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Juliette Binoche
Daniel Auteuil
Maurice Bénichou
Lester Makedonsky
Walid Afkir
Annie Girardot
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Shot by:
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Christian Berger
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Editing by:
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Michael Hudecek
Nadine Muse
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Distributed by:
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Les films du losange
Sony Pictures Classics
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What’s Hot
- The apt casting (especially the characters from the past), completeness in terms of the performance of the cast, the style of screenplay etc. make this a classic from Michael Haneke’s stables that it is yet to become.
- With the suspense element intact throughout, we are made to stay engrossed & allowed to keep wrong-guessing all through the film & that is a huge asset to any suspense thriller.
- Daniel Auteuil & Juliette Binoche make their presences felt in the scenes where the wife talks about trust and the scene where the husband feels for his kidnapped child in the kitchen.
- The camera-work has a lot of scope in staying candid & roam around at will & Christian Berger has made full use of it.
- The best scene from the film is that of the suicide which comes across as a shocker!
What’s Not
- The film has a few vague moments & because of the social message it carries in the style it does, it could be too much to take for the emotionally turbulent.
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