Cache

A cultured Parisian couple begin receiving anonymous videotapes showing their house watched from the street, wrapped in unsettling drawings. As the host tries to trace the sender, the intrusion drives him back to a childhood incident in which his family's Algerian servant boy was sent away, and his part in it.

The film is a study of guilt and the return of the repressed, of a comfortable life built on a denied cruelty that will not stay buried, with a colonial history running beneath the private one. It gives a clinician a patient account of the defences that keep a person from knowing what they have done. It won the Best Director award at Cannes in 2005.