Cache (Hidden)

Cache (Hidden) by Catherine Wheatley

Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Caché. 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. As Catherine Wheatley examines, a wealth of critical writing surrounds Caché, with various explanations having been offered as to what the film is 'really' about. In an in-depth and illuminating account, Wheatley examines the key themes at the heart of the 'meaning' of Caché: 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 Caché. Instead, her detailed analysis of the film's shifting perspectives opens up the multiplicity of meanings that Caché contains, in order to understand its secrets. ?Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Caché. The film's enigmatic and multi-layered narrative leaves its viewers with many more questions than answers.

Wheatley's detailed analysis of its shifting perspectives opens up the multiplicity of meanings Cache contains, the better to understand its secrets-- Sight& Sound
Wheatley avoids plumping for a single interpretation, instead teasing out the multilayered thematic of the elusive film. We end up no nearer to unriddling this whodunit without a solution, but granted a deeper appreciation of its tantalising subtleties. -- Total Film * Philip Kemp *
Wheatley's detailed analysis of its shifting perspectives opens up the multiplicity of meanings Cache contains, the better to understand its secrets.' -Sight & Sound 'Wheatley avoids plumping for a single interpretation, instead teasing out the multilayered thematic of the elusive film. We end up no nearer to unriddling this whodunit without a solution, but granted a deeper appreciation of its tantalising subtleties.' -Philip Kemp, Total Film -- Total Film * Nielsen *

CATHERINE WHEATLEY is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (2008) and the co-editor, with Lucy Mazdon, of Je t'aime... moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (2010).

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9781844573493
ISBN 10	1844573494
Titre	Cache (Hidden)
Auteur	Catherine Wheatley
Série	Bfi Film Classics
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Année de publication	2012-01-17
Nombre de pages	96
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note	Non disponible