Cache (Hidden)

Have you ever felt someone looking at you? A gaze shouldn't be palpable, but everyone knows the feeling of being watched. In Cache the home of the Laurents is being filmed. The tapes are dropped off at their house. There are no threats. There are no letters. Just the terror of being watched and somehow exposed. The film implicates the audience in this as there is virtually no way to tell whether you are watching the film or viewing a tape that the characters in the film are watching. It gets a little confusing at times.

The film goes on to deal with a conflict between Georges Laurent and the Albanian man who lived with his family briefly in his childhood. I didn't know very much about the political implications of the movie, but I do know that with all the drama and suspense I kept waiting for "it" to happen. Something was coming to make it all mean something--something the film was driving towards. I never really got there. I don't need everything answered in a film, but I do need to care about the questions and this film just didn't bring me to that point.