Cache, 2007 (Grade B-)

Director: Michael Haneke
Awards? --none that I know of
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Walid Afkir, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard, Denis Podalydès, Aissa Maiga, Caroline Baehr

sez says: This starts off well--with a troubling but not horrific mystery-- who is watching our house and sending us tapes to prove it.  No laws broken--just proof that you are being watched in secret--but who is doing this and why?   Thee story goes on to tell the secret that husband has been carrying since he was a young child and how it comes back into his life (via the secret watcher) -- It works for about 80% of the film--but it eventually goes off track with drama that really was not required and that made no sense.  The film maker's interview that accompanies the movie on the disc is mostly boring--but there was one illuminating statement that Haneke said. He suggest that we should not be told the reason for everything in a story--that we don;t know the reasons for everything in real life--so why should we tie everything up neatly in our stories. My response to that is: maybe it is precisely becasue real live doesn't provide answers that we need stories that try to do it for us. (Grade B-, nice try but a let down in the end)