Hidden

Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt. Anne and Georges, 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 used to live 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…