- Actors: Russell Toolate
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL
- Language English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Tempe Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 25 Oct 2011
- Run Time: 88 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B005D8OHSK
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
German director Michael Haneke is not everyone's cup of tea. Like a number of European "auteurs" through film history, his movies tend towards the philosophical if not existential, and because of this they can be both exciting and infuriating in equal measure. The Piano Teacher had all the repressed sexuality of Belle de Jour at its best, yet his "Hollywood" re-make of horror-in-the-cabin-in-the-woods thriller Funny Games seemed unnecessary to say the least. Hidden is probably the movie he is most well-known for in both Europe and America and while not perfect - and the plodding plot and anxious silences are not the stuff of modern-day British and American thrillers for sure - the mood of the piece, and the brooding atmosphere of some terrible event to come, is to be admired here. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche deliver terrific performances as a couple with secrets, pasts and dilemmas all stored up and ready to burst forth the moment a series of videos of them and their home start appearing at the door. And if you do want to get all intellectual about it, the film is something of a commentary on our increasingly Facebook/Twitter/blogging-obsessed lives and how so little of what we hold as private and dear can be kept so in the modern age. But the movie is also just a great psychological thriller. Slow, meditative and self-conscious? Yes, and that's why it won't be everyone's idea of a Friday night picture with pizza. The film's shocking moment and denouement won't necessarily inspire all either, but cinema ought to be thoughtful and provocative at times as well as entertaining and forgettable at others. Whatever you might think of Haneke, his films are never the last of these descriptions.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
The film is reasonably thoughtful but ultimately the main character is not engaging enough and too little happens to hold attention. I suppose you could say it was about how ordinary people cope with terror and guilt and a less than full trust marriage. The ending is poor, slightly bizarre and you wonder was it worth it.
The husband is serious and unrecognisable as the impish character he played in Jean de Florette. Serious and full of angst. I did not care what happened to him by the end. The wife was a little more sympathetic.
Clearly this film has pretensions to thoughtfulness but a film still needs to to be about something substantial and this really was not.
On a positive note the BD was excellent. Watching the "cassette" scenes at the beginning was as high quality as I've seen on my flat screen. The sound is DTS HD as well.
All in all not worth much. I've given 3 stars but really it is 2.5.
The husband is serious and unrecognisable as the impish character he played in Jean de Florette. Serious and full of angst. I did not care what happened to him by the end. The wife was a little more sympathetic.
Clearly this film has pretensions to thoughtfulness but a film still needs to to be about something substantial and this really was not.
On a positive note the BD was excellent. Watching the "cassette" scenes at the beginning was as high quality as I've seen on my flat screen. The sound is DTS HD as well.
All in all not worth much. I've given 3 stars but really it is 2.5.
3 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This is without doubt the most awfully pretentious nonsense I have ever seen. I made the terrible mistake off watching this at the cinema (2 hours of my life I will never get back) The plot plods along at a pace that will cure the worst of insomniacs and at the end you will wonder what the point of the whole thing is. On leaving the cinemaa I presumed to say this to my wife and was told by a woman who overheard me that I wouldn't understand the utterly indecipherable ending because I am a man, butb she couldn't explain the meaning of this pretentious angst ridden movie and it became obvious that she was as clueless as me. The whole thing smacks of the type of pseudo intellectual claptrap that people are afraid to criticise for fear of looking stupid. Ther are so many great french films out there: Mesrine, Amelie, The science of sleep, irreversible, Le Haine and AngelA to name but a few, that you really do not need to waste you time with this overblown rubbish. Avoid if you can, if you can't resist the urge to watch this film rent rather than buy it as you will never want to watch it more than once.
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