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Cast
- Daniel AuteuilGeorges Laurent
- Juliette BinocheAnne Laurent
- Annie GirardotGeorges's Mother
- Bernard Le CoqGeorges's Editor-In-Chief
- Daniel DuvalPierre
- Maurice BénichouMajid
- Walid AfkirMajid's Son
- Lester MakedonskyPierrot Laurent
- Nathalie RichardMathilde
- Denis PodalydèsYvon
Recommendations
- 100
Newsweek
This brilliantly disturbing movie is constructed with surgical precision. Haneke lets no one off the hook least of all the viewer. - 100
Time
We the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Haneke echoes the theme of Hitchcock's "Rear Window": Moviemaking is basically an act of voyeurism. We secretly examine people's lives in every movie. But in this one, there is a hidden camera, a movie within the movie as it were, forcing us to observe a character along side a mysterious stranger. - 90
Village Voice
Binoche and Auteuil are both quietly sensational in their fracturing personae, but the film is Haneke's premier postmodern assault--less visceral, perhaps, than "Code Unknown" and the criminally underappreciated "Time of the Wolf," but more thoughtful and, in the end, deeper in the afterplay. - 80
Chicago Reader
This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle without a solution about surveillance and various kinds of denial finds writer-director Michael Haneke near the top of his game, though it's not a game everyone will want to play. - 80
The A.V. Club
On a deeper level, Haneke tries to reach for political allegory on the French-Algerian War, but the film functions best as a perfectly calibrated thriller, perhaps his most accessible to date. - 80
Variety
A tightly plotted and paced thriller whose not-so-hidden agenda is to expose the bad conscience of the world's haves toward its have-nots, "Hidden" is one of Austrian helmer Michael Haneke's most watchable and pungent works.
