Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes.
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Home (2009)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:16
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Disconcerting and sometimes eerie, this enigmatic French film is an assured directorial debut.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 27, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: In Ursula Meier’s stunning theatrical debut (the official Swiss submission for this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Film), a family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is... [More]
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adelaide Leroux
Director: Ursula Meier
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Reviews for Home
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Top CriticIt's a nightmare metaphor for the horrors of the modern world, but will seem like everyday reality to anyone living around Heathrow or any motorway.
08/11/09
A kind of anti-road movie, the first half is a genial rural snapshot but, when that bypass opens, the wheels come off and things take a turn for the surreal and boring.
08/11/09
A deeply disconcerting provocation about the future of civilisation: a powerfully performed vision of an insignificant humanity.
08/07/09
A first film of laudable ambition and Meier’s directorial confidence suggests promise for the future.
08/07/09
It would have been more effective if Meier had exercised less restraint and allowed her characters to spin out of control.
08/07/09
The acting's superb, the premise intriguing, but it's hard to have sympathy for the heroine's stubbornness.
08/07/09
Sometimes eerie, at other times playful and witty, it explores themes of modernity and primitivism without ever being heavy-handed. And as a portrait of a family under siege, it’s as unsettling as it is sensual.
08/07/09
Prepare for this one to be rattling around the grey matter long after leaving the cinema. An auteur is born.
08/07/09
Ursula Meier’s Home is one of the strangest horror films of recent years, a real get under the skin movie.
08/07/09
Meier handles the tone-shifts with admirable assurance in this sweepingly shot fable.
08/07/09
A moving affair, presenting a family unit in all its messy, loving wonder, and the surreality of the situation escalates inexorably into something quietly horrifying. Beautifully shot and played, Home is something of a gem.
08/07/09
Home is actually less a road movie than the domestic-invasion movie taken to its sick conclusion.
08/07/09
An enigmatic and intriguing little tale with a flavour of the paranoia once found in the Roman Polanski classic Repulsion.
08/07/09
In showing a family's self-destructive intransigence (or is it self-preserving cohesion?), Ursula Meier unravels a modern fable in which the forces of conservatism and change pass each other by.
07/28/09
A very clever and creative film that probes on family solidarity, change, the toxic residues of a car culture, and the physical, psychological and spiritual effects of noise pollution.
03/30/09
Home is finally hopeful in its view of familial bonds holding together as the characters are forced to face the far from idealized world they are inescapably a part of.
03/30/09
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