REVIEWED - HIDDEN/CACHÉ: AUSTRIAN director Michael Haneke's deeply intriguing and calculatedly disturbing drama stars two of France's finest on prime form as husband and wife - Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a smugly confident presenter of a TV books review show, and Juliette Binoche as Laurent, an enthusiastic literary editor.

They live with their 12-year-old son in an affluent home where they entertain like-minded, well-heeled couples over good food and wine.

It goes without saying that such self-satisfied bourgeois contentment is unlikely to survive for long in a Haneke picture, and a creepy personal dilemma intrudes when videotapes arrive in the post. The first tape shows extended static shots of their home, establishing a "we know where you live" threat, accompanied by simple drawings of a child's face with blood streaming from it.

Reflecting on an incident in childhood, Georges says he has a hunch as to what lies behind this personal invasion. While we in the audience share his suspicions, he surprisingly refuses to share this information with his wife. Motifs from earlier Haneke films abound - from the use and abuse of technology to the human capacity for inhumane behaviour and calculating cruelty - and are percolated into a challenging and thought-provoking moral drama.

Anyone familiar with the cynicism and pessimism of Haneke's work will know not to expect a glibly packaged resolution. And so it is with Hidden, a movie that subtly broadens its scope from the personal to the political, past and present, and achieves this so effectively that it continues to prompt reflection well after the closing credits roll.