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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
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.
Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres -- and one that is too mesmerizing to miss.
Top Critic[Director] Lafosse's razor sharp dissection of relationships strained to the breaking point is hypnotic in a road-accident kind of way.
Huppert is, as usual, superb, proving yet again that she is the finest actress working in France today.
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.
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.
Private Property has the pulse of an emotional thriller, but without commercial cinema’s usual shrieking violins and storytelling beats.
A tightly structured family drama that accurately portrays the domestic wars that can drive family members apart.
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.
Top CriticA well-conceived, understated and nuanced dysfunctional family drama.
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.
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.
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