Home

Switzerland/France/Belgium, 2008

The peaceful life of a family is undermined when a main road is built a few meters from its isolated house. Marthe, Michel and their three children refuse to leave and try to adjust to the new life forced upon them. They go on with their happy routine, but bit by bit the house in filled with stress, poison, soot, anxiety and the horrible noise of the speeding cars. Home is a symbolist and brilliant film, skillfully shifting between realism and surrealism. Director Ursula Meier elegantly reveals the secrets of a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and though it the fragility and temporariness of the concept of home. Cinematographer Agnés Godard captures in each frame a minimalistic yet rich story, and combined with the great acting and the precise directing, Home is cinema at its best.

Anat Zuria about the film Home

Fiction  | 35 mm  |  95   Minutes  |  Color  |  French, English & Hebrew subtitles

Screenplay: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Raphaëlle Valbrune, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Lorelle, in collaboration with Alice Wincour
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux
Cinematography: Agnés Godard
Editing: Susana Rossberg with the collaboration of Francoise Gedigier, Nelly Quettier
Production: Elena Tati, Denis Freyd, Denis Delcampe
Festivals: Cannes, Rio de Janeiro, London
Source: Memento Films, France

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