Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article explores some of the frustrating elements of Caché/Hidden (Haneke, 2005), arguing that there is a sense of denial in the film's conflicting levels of ‘honesty’ and control evident within its distinctive style. Examining key sequences in close detail, and frictions that run across the film as a whole, it aims to unpick the intricate ways that the stylistic devices affect tone, bringing about disturbing tonal shifts. I suggest that the transition between the different tonal registers across the two final scenes is unsettling, generating a moral and emotional stasis—directing the audience to return to the film to re-evaluate repressed guilt, while at the same time the narrative and style advocate openness and ambiguity. I argue that tensions of tone, brought about by the film's particular address of its spectator moment to moment, and across the film as a whole, make the film's didactic elements difficult to accept.
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