While Cache appears on the surface to be about the identity of who is sending these tapes, it’s really not. Things happened, which Georges made possible, that nullified any chance of adoption, and now he believes this is coming back to haunt him. They were killed in the massacre, and Georges’ mother attempted to adopt Majid. Georges begins having recurring dreams about a boy from his past, Majid, an Algerian whose parents worked for Georges’ parents. More videotapes arrive, and then crude childlike drawings of blood and violence are sent to Georges’ workplace and Pierrot’s school. Nothing in the video is directly threatening, but its presence implies possible sinister surveillance. Georges and Anne watch it and see a single static shot from an alleyway near their home. A disruption occurs when a videotape appears on the front doorstep one morning. Their teenage son Pierrot seems like your average teenage boy.
His wife, Anne (Juliette Binoche), works in publishing. Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil) is a successful host of a literary television show. By 1998, when reporters were given access to archives, the total death toll became clear. At the time, only three deaths were admitted. French authorities hid evidence and suppressed investigations in the wake of the massacre. The result was 200 Arab people being drowned or shot to death in the Seine. The police prefect Maurice Papon, who served in Vichy France, called on the police to take aggressive action against these protestors. In October of 1961, the FLN, a nationalist political party in Algeria, called on their emigres in Paris to participate in a march. Algeria had been a colony since the mid-1800s, and its citizens had become tired of their abuses at the hands of the French. The French right-wing was becoming aggressive towards Algeria in the early 1960s. Cache is a film nestled in modern French history, specifically the Algerian War.
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