Hidden (Haneke, 2005): Genesis Cinema, 6.15pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Michael Haneke season at the Genesis.Chicago Reader review:
This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle without a solution, about
surveillance and various kinds of denial, finds writer-director Michael
Haneke near the top of his game, though it's not a game everyone will
want to play (2005). The brittle host of a TV book-chat show (Daniel
Auteuil) and his unhappy wife (Juliette Binoche) start getting strange
videos that track their comings and goings outside their Paris home.
Once the husband traces the videos to an Algerian he abused when both
were kids, things get only more tense, troubled, and unresolved. Haneke
is so punitive toward the couple and his audience that I periodically
rebelled against—or went into denial about—the director's rage, and I
guess that's part of the plan.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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