My buddies, Auteuil and Binoche, struggle with a mystery that unfolds with the speed of a napping escargot. This is an actors movie, certainly not the writer or director's. The unfolding of the plot yields a brief, bad childhood experience that re-emerges after four decades of festering. Auteuil, as a child, bacame jealous of his parents intention of adopting an Arabic boy that led to him creating a situation making the adoption impossible. It all goes away until they are both immersed in middleage which starts with the appearance of mysterious tapes left on Auteiul and Binoche's doorstep.The acting is great but the plot development is pure Van Winkle. If you enjoy watching glaciers move and paint dry this will is the one for you.
Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
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Topic - Cache -- Drama drunk on barbituates . . . - mr grits 22:41:55 07/01/06 (12)
- A brilliant little French film which leaves a nice, creepy aftertaste. nt - tinear 09:58:45 07/04/06 (0)
- Looks like Haneke fooled you more than once! - Victor Khomenko 06:20:29 07/02/06 (1)
- The actors, I guess . . . won't be a third time. * - mr grits 10:47:47 07/02/06 (0)
- Re: Cache -- Drama drunk on barbituates . . . - PhilJ 05:43:23 07/02/06 (8)
- The last scene was a flashback showing the young boy's trauma at being taken away from the estate . . . . - mr grits 10:52:50 07/02/06 (7)
- But what about the VERY last scene? - TopPop 11:34:09 07/02/06 (1)
- Ah, to me the last scene was the "taking from the estate" . . . - mr grits 18:15:06 07/02/06 (0)
- The film's basic presime of people having no ownership of their destinies is revolting - Victor Khomenko 11:08:16 07/02/06 (4)
- You and others, surprisingly, seem completely to have misunderstood. - tinear 19:01:33 07/02/06 (3)
- I don't recall seeing all those Belorussians living like pigs because of what the Germans did to them - Victor Khomenko 06:05:22 07/03/06 (2)
- If you believe this, let's all shutup about the Jewish victimhood. nt - tinear 07:12:27 07/04/06 (1)
- Jews built wonderful lives for themselves and a modern democratic society - Victor Khomenko 08:37:05 07/04/06 (0)