Word: auteuil
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CACHE (HIDDEN) Starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche. Directed by Michael Haneke. Opens...
Someone is trying to scare a decent family: TV host Georges (Auteuil), his wife Anne (Binoche) and their 12-year-old son. And doing a fine job of it. The surveillance videotapes of their home, dropped through a mail slot, announce a threat both pernicious and patient. It's time for Georges to show grace under pressure. But unlike the standard film hero, Georges is a flawed, troubled soul. Pressure brings out his shakiest instincts. As the clamp tightens, he is reminded of a long-repressed shame. Could his tormentor's motive be not simple sadism but righteous revenge...
...with guilty consciences. And as Sith ends with its plot conflicts in midair, leading up and back to the original 1977 Star Wars film, so many of the Cannes entries ended opaquely. Instead of a satisfied "Aha!", audiences were left muttering, "Huh?" In Hidden, a Parisian TV host (Daniel Auteuil), his elegant wife (Juliette Binoche) and attractive son are menaced when ominous videotapes and threatening messages drop through their mail slot. Auteuil's lingering unease over a vindictive act he committed as a boy leads him to suspect his old victim had a hand in the current mischief...
...Best Actor? Too Many. In most of the competition films, the central figures of agony or ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...head says Auteuil, Mortensen or Murray - whichever of this trio is in a film that doesn't get another top prize. (The Jury, remember, is discouraged from duplicating.) I might seem long-shot smart to suggest that Matteo Gadola, the boy in Once You're Born, has a chance - because last year's winner in this category was 14-year-old Yuuya Yagira in the Japanese drama Nobody Knows. But that's my heart speaking, not my smart. I think the boy is utterly beguiling. And I know the film doesn't stand a chance. (See below...