Haneke’s highly lauded work, for which he received the Best Director Award at Cannes, is an incisive study of repressed fear. Georges (Daniel Auteuil), a television talk show host, and his wife, Anne (Juliette Binoche), are living the perfect life of modern comfort and security. One day their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street, with no clues as to who shot it, or why. Haneke’s thriller uses long takes, pacing, and the temporal dimension of cinema to create a poignant commentary on inherent biases and trauma.