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A literary TV chat-show host (Daniel Auteuil) discovers the drawbacks to celebrity when he and his wife (Juliette Binoche) start receiving anonymous messages in the form of videos of their home and naively violent drawings.
Drama 2004 113 mins
Director: Michael Haneke
Overview
A taut, tense thriller that is as fruitfully ambiguous as it's precise and resonant in its exploration of social and individual guilt and paranoia, voyeurism and privacy, oppression and repression. A film for our times.
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