Caché (Hidden) by Wheatley, Catherine

Caché (Hidden)

Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking...
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Author: Catherine Wheatley
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Language: English
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Caché (Hidden) by Wheatley, Catherine

Caché (Hidden)

€25,91

Caché (Hidden)

€25,91
Author: Catherine Wheatley
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Cach . The film's enigmatic and multi-layered narrative leaves its viewers with many more questions than answers. The plot revolves around the mystery of who is sending a series of sinister videos and drawings to Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil), the presenter of a literary talkshow. As Georges becomes increasingly secretive, much to the distress of his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche), a culprit fails to surface. And even at the film's end, audiences are left struggling to make sense of what has gone before.

This hasn't stopped people trying. In an in-depth and illuminating account, Wheatley examines the key themes at the heart of the 'meaning' of Cach : the film as thriller; post-colonial bourgeois guilt; political accountability and lastly, reality, the media and its audiences, tracing these strands through the film by means of close readings of individual scenes and moments. Inspired by the director's claim that we might understand the film as a set of Russian dolls, each of which is complete in itself but together forms a whole in which layers of unseen depth are concealed, Wheatley avoids a single, unifying approach to understanding Cach . Instead, her detailed analysis of the film's shifting perspectives opens up the multiplicity of meanings that Cach contains, in order to understand its secrets.
This edition includes a new foreword in which the author reflects upon Cach in the context of Haneke's subsequent work, and considers the film's contemporary resonances in an era of omnipresent surveillance technology and doctored 'fake news' videos.

Author: Catherine Wheatley
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 05/28/2020
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781838719562

About the Author
Catherine Wheatley is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Stanley Cavell and Film: The Ethics of the Image (Bloomsbury, 2019); Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (2008) and the co-editor of Je t'aime... moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (2010).

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