Hidden

Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt.

Anne (Juliette Binoche) and Georges (Daniel Auteuil), a middle-class couple working in TV and publishing, receive videotape recordings of their house from an unknown stalker. Gradually, clues emerge to suggest the tapes may be connected to Georges’ past and an Algerian boy who lived with his family.

Opening like a thriller in the finest Hitchcockian vein, Hidden subverts the genre to deliver a compelling treatise on Western privilege and repressed guilt. As Georges’ state of mind becomes increasingly fractured, Haneke punctuates the narrative with some of cinema’s finest – and most terrifying – dream sequences. Moonlight director Barry Jenkins noted that there isn’t a wasted frame in the film. It is a richly and precisely drawn masterpiece.