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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
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2/5 |
Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
Brilliantly acted but oppressively dour. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Ingeniously uncomfortable but occasionally too opaque, Private Property is a darkly inventive family drama. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Thanks to the acuity of their performances, the old adage “You always hurt the ones you love” rings new and true. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
There's not a wasted word and the performances are impressive in Joachim Lafosse's hugely impressive film. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Once again Europe shows Hollywood how to put together a funny, sexy, scary, thought-provoking drama and pack it into 90 intense minutes Full Review |
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2/5 |
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The effect of all this acting out is less erotic than helplessly childish. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[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. Full Review |
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3/6 |
Sometimes the path of excess leads not to the tower of wisdom, but to exhaustion. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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