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09/06/07
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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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12/17/08
Once again Europe shows Hollywood how to put together a funny, sexy, scary, thought-provoking drama and pack it into 90 intense minutes
11/08/07
The performances are impeccable, but while director Joachim Lafosse carefully creates an atmosphere of suffocating dread, he could have let a little more air into this simmering hothouse.
05/22/07
The effect of all this acting out is less erotic than helplessly childish.
09/06/07
Save the effort by asking the neighbours if you can come round for ten minutes every night for a week. A wet week. Before pay day.
04/18/08
The story is often mesmerizing, even when the pace is slow and little action appears to occur. Yet after so much terrific buildup, the denouement is a letdown.
05/21/07
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09/15/07
Brilliantly acted but oppressively dour.
04/18/08
Lafosse gives it an arbitrary rest without clearing up a few mysteries, which unfortunately means he doesn't have to acknowledge or deal with them.
09/05/07
Sometimes the path of excess leads not to the tower of wisdom, but to exhaustion.
08/16/07
Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres -- and one that is too mesmerizing to miss.
05/30/07
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
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