Saw this over the weekend; Daniel Auteuil plays a TV personality, Juliet Binoche his wife. They start getting mysterious videotapes of the outside of their house – threat or prank? He starts investigating, and we start finding things out about him.
Good flick – I was definitely engrossed the whole time, and it wasn’t until the very last few moments that you really find out (and even then, by indirection) what’s been going on. The director, Michael Haneke (who I’ve never heard of, but I’m an ignoramus on foreign film) won Best Director at Cannes last year – and deserved it, IMHO.
Has anyone else seen it?
Yep, just saw it. I was completely mystified at the end. Turned out in the final scene, I’d been looking at the wrong people. I liked it. It was pretty understated, except for you-know-what, but beautifully filmed.
Re: the last scene:
Yeah, I came out saying “So, the two sons were in collusion?” – and the friend I went with had zero idea what I was talking about because he hadn’t noticed them interacting on the steps. So you’re not alone in having missed that.
Wonderful visuals throughout – esp. the swimming scenes, for instance. I also liked the way they played with time – the scene at the end, at Georges’s childhood home, when they came and got the boy Majid – I thought, for some reason, that that was where his mother was living now, and that the boy who ran away was Georges’s son, and that the old Volvo was some retro SUV of the present.