Cache-a French film
 

This was difficult film to watch and I'm not sure I guessed who was the "One."
If anyone wants to email me with their guess at hotmail I am really interested.
I thought the acting was syperb. Binoche had one great scene but she wasn't her glamorous self.

Cigalechanta, Cache was a wonderful film. As far as who was the "one" (or "ones"), the last scene should have told you!

I've been wanting to see this movie, maybe I'll see it over the weekend and get back with you.

I got tired of watching the slow slooooow scenes of watching...but it held my attention through most of it although I got sort of impatient.
The couple seemed a bit on the testy side with each other , which did not make me love them or care that much, the part with the boy not coming home was so obvious, I like the actors but the film did not make my Best list :)
That one scene that is so shocking was just that, something to shock you out of the doze you might have fallen in while staring at someone watching lol.
Howard, don't hit me!! :D

I must say, the ending left me a bit confused. Do you think the son was complicit?

Shhhhhh....lol....there were only so many characters in the film. It had to be one of them....

Well, watching that paris house for so many minutes in Cache about 4 weeks ago stayed in my brain and led to me renting an apartment in Paris for 6 days next week! It somehow burrowed into my psyche and a NEEDED to go.........never has happened to me before. I think the "sons" were complicit (notice them conversing on screen left in the final scene) and the metaphor (well maybe not metaphor but it was some kind of message) was that the younger generation will join forces to atone for and/or expose the sins of the elders.......???? That's how decide to interpret it.At any rate I found that I couldn't stop thinking about the film.....and I love Binoche.

I really liked the house, all those books and the street. You will enjoy the apartment, marsha!

I tried so hard to see the street signs in the video to try to figure out in which arrondissement the apartment was in!

Scarlett, yes! I loved the feel of the house and I literally got up in the middle of the night two weeks ago and booked a trip and then checked with my husband in the morning........luckily he thought about it for 2 minutes and decided it was a great idea....we just came in from walking around on this COLD night in New York City area to "test" our layers for Paris.........even got him to wear one of my old berets.......we're having fun and we haven't even left yet.......all thanks to Cache......go figure

The opening scene shows the corner street sign that says rue de iris which is in the 13th. I spent alot of time on a forum devoted to this film. it's mind boggling some of the ibterpretations.

Marsha, I gonna try that :D

cigalechanta, would you mind sharing how to get to the forums on Cache? I'd love to read them. thanks.

I'm not cigalechanta, but I took a wild guess and Googled "Cache" and found a lot of those websites, including discussions.

When all else fails, try Google.

Boo to you people who revealed the ending!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Scarlett, Cache is slow and deliberate. But, that's just the point!

Sorry, I don't usually even read the complete reviews of movies because, instead of actually critiquing them these days, I think they just summarize them and I want to go in a let the story unfold as I watch. I hate trailers for that reason because usually the "spell" the whole plot and many of the best lines/jokes out.
However, the initial question here was about an interpretation of the film, so I think if you hadn't yet see Cache you shouldn't have read the thread unless you wanted to know the ending and who the "one" was.....again I apologize but how can you comment intelligently if you can't discuss what you see?

Marsha: You'll see that many disagree about the ending.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/board/nest/25813945

cigalechanta, thanks for posting that website. The comments about Cache are fascinating.

This confirms that it is the 13th arr.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/me...ache-0604.html

topping

The point is, who was or wasn't making the videos is beside the point, as the director himself has said.

I think the key to the movie is the almost throwaway reference to why the Algerian was an orphan in the first place: a French audience would (should) get it, but outside France it isn't really remembered that during protests in Paris in 1961 or 1962 against over-heavy police tactics in searching out sympathisers with the FLN, something like 200 Algerians simply disappeared after the riot police broke the demonstrations up. Bodies turned up in the Seine, but some people were never found.

Focussing on the "thriller" aspect of the film mirrors Georges's own obsession with the videos themselves (notice how there are red splashes in the corners of both the videos and other scenes supposedly outside the videos, like the splashes on the postcards he gets sent). It diverts attention away from the question of responsibility for what happened to this particular Algerian as a child, to his parents, and to the children of Algerians in France today. Georges never actually listens to what either the Algerian or his son have to say, even as he demands to know what's going on. He thinks he tries, but he never really "gets it" - as with his wife and son.

I was tipped off about the final scene, but I couldn't see it, I must say. Even if I had, it wouldn't have altered what I took to be the point of the film, though it might, if anything, have left a more positive feeling.

This is the quote from the director that I had in mind: It's at
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmu...37688,00.html:

Regarding the question of "whodunnit", a rather po-faced Haneke has stated vehemently: "I'm not going to give anyone this answer ... If you come out wanting to know who sent the tapes, you didn't understand the film. To ask this question is to avoid asking the real question the film raises, which is more: how do we treat our conscience and our guilt and reconcile ourselves to living with our actions?

"People are only asking 'whodunnit?' because I chose to use the genre, the structure of a thriller, to address the issues of blame and conscience, and these methods of narrative usually demand an answer. But my film isn't a thriller and who am I to presume to give anyone an answer on how they should deal with their own guilty conscience?"

I missed what you were supposed to see at the end, but my friend saw it. I'm not sure it necessarily clears up things anyway. Definitely an interesting and thought-provoking movie, but it did leave my a bit frustrated at the end ... guess it was supposed to.