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The opening of a new expressway disrupts the lives of a rural French couple (Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet) and their three children.
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Disconcerting and sometimes eerie, this enigmatic French film is an assured directorial debut.

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Andrew Schenker Village Voice Working with all-star DP Agnès Godard, Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy. Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Rob Nelson Variety Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes. Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Toby Young Times (UK) It would have been more effective if Meier had exercised less restraint and allowed her characters to spin out of control. Rated: 3/5 Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Tom Dawson Total Film Meier handles the tone-shifts with admirable assurance in this sweepingly shot fable. Rated: 4/5 Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice A very clever and creative film that probes on family solidarity, change, the toxic residues of a car culture, and the physical, psychological and spiritual effects of noise pollution. Rated: 4/5 Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Rob Daniel Sky Cinema Ursula Meier's Home is one of the strangest horror films of recent years, a real get under the skin movie. Rated: 4/5 Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Like Mike Leigh made a movie with Claire Denis after seeing an Eric Rohmer retrospective, "Home" is a remarkable film with an equal sense of bare realism and the absurdity we find in existentialism. The performances by all the family members is exceptional. There is such a natural, authentic familial chemistry and warmth here. Hell, even the grown sister bathes with her pre-adolescent brother. The approaches taken by each family member to the dilemma of the new highway is extreme paranoia to wanting to flee, feigned indifference to a rather somnambulist denial. Not to say it's all bleak or bizarre, overly arty or serious. The movie has a number of light moments. The family clearly is a tight, loving unit; but one with a presence in the constant rush of traffic all day long and into the night. But bricking yourself off from the encroachment of urbanization is not gonna make it go away. Seems they're trying to make at least one of their points that withdrawing from a major problem (or over-isolating yourself from it) is inherently wrong as it can change you in negative ways. Admirable work by director Meier and screenwriter Jaccoud. 3.8 stars Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Ursula Meier's study of an eccentric family's slide from bohemian happiness to a shared state of poor health and insanity. It is successful as both a psychological study and environmental commentary. And, it is also almost hypnotically entertaining. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A quiet and effective film. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Bizarro stangeness that ends on a memorable note. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Though it takes a while to get going - needing to establish that this family is happy and loves each other before the story complicates - this is a film that dramatizes its complaint about the pace of modern life very well. It sways back and forth between the realist and the absurd, and the way its walls close in is chilling. I really liked this one - Switzerland's submission for Best Foreign Language film in its year of release. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member D'un sujet qui aurait pu se prêter à une certaine forme d'humour noir - la mise en service d'une autoroute va bouleverser le quotidien d'une famille riveraine - cette co-production francophone prend la route d'un drame qui, l'air de ne pas y toucher, progresse paisiblement vers une conclusion dont on devine dès le depart qu'elle ne sera pas rose. Les strategies de lutte contre l'adversite perdent rapidement leur côte decale à mesure que cette petite bulle d'harmonie familiale se fissure sous les offensives d'un monde exterieur bruyant et impersonnel (il n'y a en effet aucun intervenant exterieur à la famille!). A la logique de resistance deletère dans laquelle s'enferme cette famille soumise à une bouleversement sur lequel elle n'a aucune prise repond une asphyxie, reelle cette fois, dans une demeure integralement muree pour attenuer les nuisances sonores. Dans cette fable grinçante sur une "impossible solitude", on retrouve, en pire et en mieux pense, un schema d'implosion familiale qui n'est pas sans rappeler le fameux "Sitcom" de François Ozon, et ce microcosme qui finit par ne plus obeir qu'à sa propre logique pour survivre annonce dejà le glauque et grec "Kynodonthas". Un drame europeen comme on aimerait en voir plus souvent qui, sous un vernis d'absurde, en revèle finalement beaucoup plus sur tous les sujets que beaucoup d'autres. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The opening of a new expressway disrupts the lives of a rural French couple (Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet) and their three children.
Director
Ursula Meier
Producer
Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Denis Freyd, Denis Delcampe
Screenwriter
Antoine Jaccoud
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 27, 2010
Runtime
1h 38m
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