Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche in Hidden

Austrian director Michael Haneke's acclaimed French language 'thriller' Hidden (Caché), starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, which garnered five awards at the European Film Awards in Berlin on 3 December), opens today. Haneke's portrail of guilt, the media and French colonial past has a latently contemporary feel to it and captures something about the fear-driven societies we live in. An important film and very interesting visually as well.