Michael Haneke is at his best with this unsettling family drama which should be an arthouse hit ... A master at controlling
mood and emotion, Haneke shows such precision in his pacing and imagery that the audience is in the palm of his hand. Allan
Hunter, Screen International A tightly plotted and paced thriller ... One of Michael Haneke's most watchable and pungent works
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Deborah Young, Variety
Art and suspense merged ... Satisfyingly charged with political currents and disturbing ambiguities ...
Todd McCarthy, Variety
One of the most vital filmmakers working today ... Manohla Dargis, New York Times A chilling, paranoid, politically charged
vision of modern dislocation ...
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Hidden is directed with the unblinking, unmoving eye of a surveillance video, and acted with power and subtletly ... Powerful
and supple
Richard Corliss, Time
Sheer brilliance of execution ... Haneke mines a rich vein of issues to do with contemporary life: the repression of emotions
and memories, social and economic oppression, the effects of celebrity, the erosion of privacy, the fear of the Other, voyeurism,
responsibility, and conscience ... The film also succeeds superbly as gripping drama- it's suspenseful, witty, engrossing
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Geoff Andrew, Time
Out Blood-freezing stalker nightmare ... Profoundly unsettling and superbly filmed,... Performances from Daniel Auteuil and
Juliette Binoche are outstanding ... As with so many of Haneke's films, the resulting disquiet lingers in the bloodstream
like malaria ...
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
A breathtaking film by a masterful, formidably intelligent director ...
Jason Solomons, The Observer
Formidably controlled, chilling and resonant ... Formal brilliance, thematic weight and compelling performances ...
Sheila Johnston, The Independent
Haneke's best work to date ... A brilliantly-controlled study of guilt that taps eloquently into contemporary neuroses ...
Terrifically-scary study about those guilty secrets which pursue us ...
Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard
Splendid and breathtaking ... Rich in reflections on unseen childhood wounds, solitude against interior demons, the hurt of
secrets in a couple, the way in which guilt eats away at a person, the revenge of the repressed ... The poignant personal
drama takes on universal dimensions ...
Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde
Refinedly sadistic ... Haneke titillates sadistically the sensitive points of contemporary society: obsession with security,
the cult of individualism, bad bourgeois conscience and adjusted leftist ideals ...
Didier Peron, Libération
