MFFC: Caché (15)

Malvern French Film Centre

English title: Hidden

Director: Michael Haneke

Certificate: 15

Crime Thriller

2005

Running time: 1hr 57mins

French with English subtitles

Gripping thriller based on the denial and guilt mixed into the foundations of post Colonial western prosperity. When a famous Parisian TV presenter receives menacing videos of his home life he suspects an Algerian called Majid, to whom he did something unspeakable when they were both six years old. Is the grown-up Majid turning the tables? Did he send the videos, or is there another explanation?