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Home (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 2

Disconcerting and sometimes eerie, this enigmatic French film is an assured directorial debut.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0

Disconcerting and sometimes eerie, this enigmatic French film is an assured directorial debut.

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Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close. Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. As such, we are afforded the unique opportunity to witness our changing environment from an entirely new vantage point. In our 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has

Jun 23, 2009

$9.5k

Diaphana Films

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (2)

Home is the engaging, darkly funny, surreal story of what happens when people who have thrived by keeping civilization at a safe distance suddenly find themselves pushed right back into its headlights.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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What happens would not make sense in many households, but in this one, it represents a certain continuity, and confirms deep currents we sensed almost from the first.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Though the cautionary symbolism is clear here, the committee-written film (there were five scribes including Meier), smartly keeps its message quotient in check.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Working with all-star DP Agnès Godard, Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal.

April 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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It's a unique work of disturbing character poetry, though it may be a little too disturbing.

August 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Darkly funny, haunting, and perhaps hopeful...there's a keen sense of absurdism (and in Agnès Godard's brilliant photography a sort of surrealist realism, if there is such a thing) in the circumstances. [Blu-ray]

August 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

This suburban horror tale of a family's disintegration once modern life begins encroaching is reminiscent of such films as "The Cement Garden"...

April 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Moving from the richly filled, quiet life of Marthe and her clan to the hell that the road brings, the story...has a unique arc and is a true family tragedy.

April 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Gradually the movie turns into an ironic assault on the inconvenient nature of civilization's conveniences.

February 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

A surrealistic look at a family thrown onto the chopping block of modern technology.

December 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | Comment
Monsters and Critics

This original but overlong fable about a family menaced by industrial progress captures fears about a planet out of control.

November 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment (1)
Film Journal International

Eases down the road from an intimate family portrait to a disturbing environmental-disaster fable with a harrowing credibility that has more depth than most apocalypses.

November 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

The performers manage to overcome Meier's schematic framework-too "modern-day fairy tale" for its own good-though the director clearly knows which collaborators and elements to enlist for game-raising purposes.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Filmmaker Meier takes a clever look at family life by placing the characters in a surreal location and then twisting things outrageously

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

It'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.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

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.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comment
Daily Mirror [UK]

A deeply disconcerting provocation about the future of civilisation: a powerfully performed vision of an insignificant humanity.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

A first film of laudable ambition and Meier's directorial confidence suggests promise for the future.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

It would have been more effective if Meier had exercised less restraint and allowed her characters to spin out of control.

August 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]
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Audience Reviews for Home

Ursula Meier just couldn't help herself, what starts as an interesting concept turns into a cliched French existential load of old nonsense. It's 2 steps forward and 1 step back all the way but to its credit it is beautifully filmed throughout.

October 1, 2010
SirPant

Super Reviewer

A French family's behavior becomes increasingly erratic when a major highway opens in their front yard; they eventually wall themselves up in the house to escape the noise. An obscure metaphor that never gets up to highway speed. NOTE: This review referes to the French film; Flixter currently has the cast list mixed

September 30, 2010
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Greg S

Super Reviewer

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