Introduction

Citation

Ezra E & Sillars J (2007) Introduction. Screen, 48 (2), pp. 211-213. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm016

Abstract
Michael Haneke's Cach‚/Hidden (2005) is a film that seems to generate endless discussion. Part thriller, part mystery, part ghost story, it seems to haunt people long after they see it, prompting them to talk about it to the point at which one would normally expect the interpretive possibilities to be exhausted - but still, new interpretations keep bubbling up, sometimes unbidden. And yet, although this film is certainly puzzling in many respects, it resists attempts to read it as a puzzle to be decoded. Perhaps it is compelling not because it has great deal to say (in the sense that its silences are just as informative as its utterances), but because it elicits an unusually wide range of responses from so many different perspectives.

Keywords
people; perspectives; range; respect; responses; story

Notes
Output Type: Editorial

Journal
Screen: Volume 48, Issue 2

People

Professor Elizabeth Ezra

Professor of Cinema and Culture, French