nan | 楠木

Caché is not an easy film to appreciate, and it is one that will easily splits its audience into two camps (those who love it and those who hate it) while inciting heated discussions on Internet forums.

If you’ve seen the film, then the reason for the above mentioned phenomena is simple. Caché is a film with an open ending and lots of references and metaphors, leaving the field open for all kinds of interpretations. As such, some will see it as pretentious (and the open ending a cop-out) while others will praise the wisdom of the director in leaving it open.

For myself, I’m quite indifferent. I like the film’s non-conventional approach, and the interesting character study it offers, but I’m not a particular fan of its open ending – I felt the lack of a resolution gave the film a rather strong detached feeling (which I had felt throughout the viewing experience), and for whatever reason I didn’t really like this cold detachedness (maybe it made the whole film feel pretentious?).

6/10