Wow. I was reluctant to see another “Michael Haneke”:http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/haneke.html film. Funny Games, was disturbing. I read that Wim Wenders walked out of the screening at Cannes in 1997). The Time of the wolf was depressing, The Piano Teacher was at least engaging, Code Unknown I didn’t get to the end but sensed it was good.

Hidden was, by contrast, fairly clear in its message and its alegory was plain. There were minor shocks and some narrative details left uncertain (who DID take those films? Was the last scene chronologically the first?) Most powerful werre scenes where Middle Eastern Western violence dominated a scene of domestic anxiety even though it was in the background – and we were always – often uneasy about whether we were watching the film or a film within the film, the rewinds reminding me of Funny Games. This is definately worth seeing.