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Article: From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke's Caché
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- Film International
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Keywords: Caché, Michael Haneke, Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, film acting, spectatorship, phenomenology, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
At the press conference presenting Caché at the Cannes Film Festival 2005, Michael Haneke points out: 'I always say that a feature film is twenty-four lies per second; the lies may be told to serve a higher truth, but they aren't always. I think the way the videotape is treated here shakes the viewer's confidence in reality. The first sequence you see in Caché is ostensibly reality, whereas it is actually a stolen image filmed with a camcorder. Of course, I am wary of the reality we are supposedly seeing in the media'. Fig. 1 At this conference, Haneke is ...