Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres -- and one that is too mesmerizing to miss.
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05/30/07
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Private Property (2006)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:21
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Private Property overcomes its slow pace with tight direction from Joachim Lafosse and an intriguing performance from Isabelle Huppert.
Theatrical Release:May 18, 2007 Limited
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Reviews for Private Property
Top CriticNue propriété might belong to the already overcrowded group of dysfunctional family dramas, it certainly is one of more nuanced and rich additions to have come out of Europe in recent years.
09/15/06
There's not a wasted word and the performances are impressive in Joachim Lafosse's hugely impressive film.
04/18/08
A well-conceived, understated and nuanced dysfunctional family drama.
05/09/07
Huppert's state of dead-end panic during one scene is an example of how she keeps the story at a human level, preventing it from becoming some stale and intellectual homily about female emancipation.
05/09/07
A tightly structured family drama that accurately portrays the domestic wars that can drive family members apart.
05/18/07
Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour.
04/18/08
French actress Isabelle Huppert has made a career out of playing women on the verge of ... something. Suicide, nervous breakdowns, disastrous affairs -- you name it, Huppert's characters have had it.
07/06/07
Rhythmically, narratively and emotionally propulsive, this Joachim Lafosse film finds the almost predictably magnificent Isabelle Huppert as a woman of a certain age, trying to swim to the surface with a weight around her leg -- make that two weights.
05/17/07
Top CriticAn impeccably acted character drama revolving around a mother and her teenage twin sons, Private Property shows how strong and how terrifying the bonds within families can be.
08/31/07
Top Critic[Director] Lafosse's razor sharp dissection of relationships strained to the breaking point is hypnotic in a road-accident kind of way.
05/22/07
Private Property has the pulse of an emotional thriller, but without commercial cinema’s usual shrieking violins and storytelling beats.
05/21/07
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10/18/08
Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse.
04/18/08
The conflicts that unfold within this both familiar and eccentric family provide a portrait of such delicacy and dramatic illumination, that one can almost forgive Lafosse for yet another bad mommy blame game on screen when it comes to society's ills.
06/06/07
What draws us into "Private Property" is how so many things happen under the surface, never commented upon. At any given moment, we cannot say for sure what the characters fully feel, since they often act at right angles to their emotions.
08/24/07
Top CriticIt wouldn't be accurate to call Private Property a thriller, but it has a slow-burning intensity that's oddly suspenseful, and it shifts gears effectively once the tense family dynamic suddenly changes.
08/27/07
Ingeniously uncomfortable but occasionally too opaque, Private Property is a darkly inventive family drama.
04/18/08
[Director] Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions.
08/23/07
Thanks to the acuity of their performances, the old adage “You always hurt the ones you love” rings new and true.
04/18/08
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