Hidden

Aroview: A disquieting modern thriller that pulls no punches, depositing a climate of terrorism and fear onto the lives of two French professionals and their son, each unknowingly exposed within the walls of their affluent urban home.

As recipients of surveillance tapes shot from outside their inner-city residence, the Parisian couple at the center of the film slowly come unstuck, losing their grasp on 'reality' as skeletons from the closet emerge, and clouds of tension gather amidst a wholly unnerving, but ultimately ambiguous threat. Video tapes are later replaced by sinister drawings, compelling husband George (Auteuil) into drastic measures that reveal a tainted past. Euro-provocateur Haneke's cold and calculated perspective is without embellishment, typifying the Austrian's killer instinct for the root of all that is troubled with the world. Intelligent, unvarnished, and frighteningly real, this is a true movie of our times.

NZ International Film Festival 2005

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