http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10003671-cache/

Cache looks to be entering the scene this December with soft steps. I noticed it picked up a BFCA Foriegn nod, and also a won the LAFCA top honors over 2046 (for import).

Its reception is mixed, and some call it rivetting while others call it heavy-handed. Reminds me a bit of The Player for some reason, only with racial overtone Could be interesting. I'm a huge fan surveillance movies, and The Conversation is one of my most favorite films. I'm going to try and check this one out as soon as possible, even though Binoche is incredibly hit-or-miss. Some of her movies are god aweful. Most of them actually.

Excellent. Cache just opened across the street, and I will try to see it this weekend. Thus far it has had very warm reception in its openning weekend as far as box office and critical acclaim.

With 37 reviews in, its got one of the higher approval ratings of the films released this time of year. I think it looks thrilling, and quite good, and I expect it to become the third biggest import this year. It going to get alot more publicity than such a film usually does, mostly because of Binoche, and because it has been winning alot of critics' group awards.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10003671-cache/



Already sounds fine to me!



Even better!



Opening weekend:

- N Cache SPC $81,211 - 5 - $16,242pta $81,211 - 1

anything with Binoche in it is awesome. Add in Paris and im so there its not even funny.
Its already generating strong oscar buzz for some reason.

'Cept Chocolat, Couch in New York, and Bee Season (trailer alone).

Chocolat is probobly my third favourite movie ever.

I'm not into pretentious films done for the craft alone. They are almost always shallow and dull - Chocolat was everything a cinematic love story should be. A character driven tale told with not only a distinctive style, but a brilliant cast, fantastic script and director who nailed the storytelling technique in a way that few can.

Well, I saw it tonight. Its really, well, French. Stylisitically that is to say. Pacing and content, the way in which the married couple interacts. I did think it was decent, but more so on premesis and philosophy than on technical execution. There were a few very shocking scenes, but other areas had that very familiar minimalist feel to them. It kept the emotional response very aloof except for this one scene. I don't want to give it away, but there was a collective gasp from the audiance that was so loud I think think passer-bys on the street outside the building heard it.

Interesting parallel between the couple's individual responses to their situation and national history. They're a microcosm, plain and simple, and thats when the film works best. When it tries to delve into character study it flounders a bit.

I've seen the trailer for it before my Match Point showing and I must say it looked really really really bad in the trailer...

Okay, dv - at least in here we don't have to dance the grand dance of art. We know that there won't be a stampede of traffic filling up the hidden Caché thread buried here in the seldom visited "Foreign and Independent Film" sub-forum...

I agree with your review - it really is pretty darn French.

It's made in France with renowned French actors, Daniel Auteuil (The Girl on the Bridge(!)) and Juliette Binoche. Best film at the European Film Awards. Best director at Cannes. Comprenez-vous?

It is a creepy telling of a tale using all the tricks of the storyteller's trade, amped up with all the tricks of the filmdirector's trade. It is as they say in French: a mind-_ _ _ _! It has a unified sense of style in design, mood, and pace. The acting is solid, but the real star is the screenplay - outstandingly challenging yet playful and disturbing.

Yep - it's French alright!

I really enjoyed it. (Now, back to the dance...)

5 out of 5.

Well, I guess it depends on what one would tie the surveillance too. Its not a profound read or playing out of someone who harbors some issues in their past standing in as a microcosm for French race repression. It was a bit too unfirm in pace for me, and the bickering of the couple and their teenage kid felt generic (for the French that is). What didn't feel generic was *spoilers* All the encounters with the younger brother. Especially the scene where he kills himself. That scene was so sudden and shocking, literally everyone in the audiance gasped. I'm assuming its baout how repression can as often as not lead to self-oriented violence. *end spoilers*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

THIS MOVIE FRUSTRATED ME SOOOO MUCH!!!!

I liked it soooo much and I was so anticipating the resolution but the ending was so not what I wanted... Either that or I completely didn't get it The suspense was soo good!

I just read your comments and none of you talk about hte ending?! Did i miss something??


Also

*spoiler*
That suicide scene was teh most schoking scene i have ever seen in my life! The loudest gasp I have ever heard in a theatre and there were only like 40 people there! huge gasp! I gasped and closed my eyes!! It was so intense.

I really really enjoyed the cinematography in this movie (well the camera work) I loved how it was so static and that's what made that suicide scene so dramatic, bc you were expecting a shift in angle before that.

Also, I really liked how when he first went to see his adopted brother and how you got to see the brothers reaction after he left the house when they saw the video feed. made me realize how you forget how these characters react after the main character leaves.. Made the movie much more realistic.

I REALLY REALLY liked the movie.. until the end.. It killed it for me.

Also,

SPOILERS


I don't get how these movies are saying that this movie challenges race assumptions and segregatoin... I don't see how.. at all... Also the reviews that concentrate on how he must learn to be accountable for his actions are alsoo really weird bc georges did this when he was 6... I don't remember anything that I did when I was six and I'm smart enough to realize that when ppl are six that they do change in their life.... nothing was shown to suggest that georges was the same in his later life..

This movie was an amazing thriller, which was greatly filmed! THe film that could.. I was anticipating a great ending.. But no.. they deprived me.. I was enjoying the movie more than matchpoin (my highest rated this year) and then no... I want a new ending!!! I feel so ripped off.. but the rest of the movie was so good...

Sorry my reply was so long in coming. A couple other people have already seen it, so they may read it differently. I don't expect its a direct correlation as much as a suggestion. The continued subconscious repression via class and ethnic background. There is a huge ethnic underclass in France (surprise) and its not just about the past aggression and colonization (signified by childhood) but also just the continuous nagging and blaming and presumption that the under class is tearing the security of the French social fabric.

How the husband just kept pursuiting his ex-brother, and also, how he continued to accuse his son even after *spoilers* the suicide. *end spoilers* I just think it was about built up agression and guilt, and kind of stood as a microcosmic example of entire French Society. Their habits as a family were typical (too typical?) upper bourgeoisie.


Yes. loudest gasp of the year.

Had absolutely the same feelings about the ending. The rest of the movie was really good, definately a surprise.

For me, I wasn't surprised > wasn't all of the blood in the pictures coming from the thoart and not the mouth.

Anyway, I knew he was going to die, I just thought that it was going to be another set-up on tape.

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I personally didn't love movie, yes it is very similar to most French movies I have seen, but I just didn't get much out of the meaning of this movie > was it anything more than the hidden secerts you have in your life???

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Also, if both father and son sweared that they didn't do the tape. Who did the taping???

Well that's just it. It was meant more to be about the cobwebs in everyone's closet, and those cobwebs stood in for the greater National dark past. But it wasn't ultimately tied to many of the "forms" the director used, including the mystery/surveillance, and the angsty son and couple sparring. He tried to tie his message onto previously existing forms. Push those forms into new spaces, rather than having them just be about family fued, or who-dunnit. I applaud him for that, I just don't think he was all that successful. I would have just gone with a less legible form in the first place, as it ended up detracting from the message, and alot of people including myself left the theatre thinking "So, are they gonna keep getting videos and pictures of slaughtered people under their doorstep for the rest of their days?"