It 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.
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08/27/07
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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
Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour.
04/18/08
Ingeniously uncomfortable but occasionally too opaque, Private Property is a darkly inventive family drama.
04/18/08
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 Critic[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
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
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09/06/07
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
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09/15/07
There's not a wasted word and the performances are impressive in Joachim Lafosse's hugely impressive film.
04/18/08
Nue 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
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
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
Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse.
04/18/08
The effect of all this acting out is less erotic than helplessly childish.
09/06/07
An 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 CriticThe 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
Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres -- and one that is too mesmerizing to miss.
05/30/07
Top CriticHuppert is, as usual, superb, proving yet again that she is the finest actress working in France today.
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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