Cache (Hidden) Movie

[David Morris]

Ebert's intro paragraph:

"How is it possible to watch a thriller intently two times and completely
miss a smoking gun that's in full view? Yet I did. Only on my third trip
through Michael Haneke's "Cache" did I consciously observe a shot which
forced me to redefine the film. I was not alone. I haven't read all of the
reviews of the film, but after seeing that shot I looked up a lot of them,
and the shot is never referred to. For that matter, no one seems to point
to a conclusion that it might suggest.

Ebert's last paragraph:

"Now I call your attention to the shot I missed the first time through. You
will find it on the DVD, centering around 20:39. You tell me what it means.
It's the smoking gun, but did it shoot anybody?"

Does anybody know what scene he's talking about?

David Morris

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not to forget Amour about which Ebert wrote (at least) 2 great paragraphs
>
> Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. Trintignant and Riva
> courageously take on these roles, which strip aside all the glamor of their
> long careers (he starred in "A Man and a Woman," she most famously in
> "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"). Their beauty has faded, but it glows from within.
> It accepts unflinchingly the realities of age, failure and the
> disintegration of the ego.
>
> Yes, and to watch "Amour" invites us — another audience — to accept them,
> too. When I saw "Hiroshima, Mon Amor" (1959), I was young and eager and
> excited to be attending one of the first French art films I'd ever seen. It
> helped teach me what it was, and who I was. Now I see that the film, its
> actors and its meaning have all been carried on, and that the firemen are
> going to come looking for all of us one of these days, sooner or later.
> 3 months before the firemen came looking for him.
>
>
> 2016-09-20 22:52 GMT+02:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>
>> hard to choose also considering the brilliance of The White Ribbon and
>> The Piano Teacher.  Haneke would seem to be a good fit for a Thomas
>> Bernhardt adaptation seems to me
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much for that, David. I saw the film when it came out
>>> here. Very impressed. But I didn't know what Ebert wrote about it – one of
>>> his best reviews I think. And one of Haneke's best movies.
>>>
>>> 2016-09-20 3:46 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-cache-2005
>>>>
>>>> I just watched this on DVD.  It was a fascinating character study
>>>> Mystery. The mystery being stitching together the story of a series oh
>>>> hidden camera tapes of a family being observed delivered to them wrapped in
>>>> childish sketched of blood-gushing from throats of children or chickens.
>>>>
>>>> It moves slowly, but this drama requires patience.  It is a mature
>>>> Mystery.  It feels like a Film Vetrite with  a dash of  cerebral reality
>>>> questioning. It always seems plausible, untill it doesn't.  And that's a
>>>> good thing.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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