Becoming less self-interested may depend on forgetting, but repression isn’t forgetting – it only preserves detested memories for later. Caché centres on Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil), a French television talkshow host and the most incurious academic who ever drew breath. Aesthetically, the tapes, Georges’ dreams, and his POV in staking out Majid’s apartment are all of a piece. Like Georges, viewers grow cocksure in their assumptions, blind to their projections. In Caché, while Anne and Georges discuss Pierrot’s disappearance, their television shows Palestinians carrying bloodied bodies through the streets.