In the House (2013)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 7
Dark, tense, and wryly funny, In the House is brilliantly directed by François Ozon and features fine performances from its talented cast.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 4
Dark, tense, and wryly funny, In the House is brilliantly directed by François Ozon and features fine performances from its talented cast.
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A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events. (c) Cohen Media
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[A] slyly warped student-and-teacher yarn.
Top CriticThe result is endlessly playful, although the rules of the game, in Ozon's hands, could hardly be graver, and what can be at stake, in the act of storytelling, has seldom been more elegantly sketched.
Ozon is an artful provocateur and observer of human nature.
Darkly funny and utterly compelling, it's arguably the best teacher-student movie since 1999's Election.
With its wheels-within-wheels structure and ubiquitous jibber-jabber between neophyte and guide "In the House" is something of a lit major's "Inception."
Mostly, the film's a confident, very sophisticated meditation on art - on why we need it, how we identify with it and what it gives our lives. And what it can't replace.
It's amusing and unexpected, capturing the compulsive spirit of writing with wit and attention to mischief that keeps it unpredictable to the very end.
One of Ozon's best.
A little kinky, a little creepy, and quite clever and literary.
To watch it is to be simultaneously seduced and interrogated.
...joins a handful of clever films where fiction and reality merge, like "Adaptation" or Zoe Kazan's more recent "Ruby Sparks." It's thrilling, funny, smart and hugely entertaining, more satisfying than the director's breakout film.
François Ozon's slow-burn comic thriller is a sensitive observation of a global race-to-the-bottom that is devaluing culture in all of its varied forms.
A sharp, enticing psychological cat-and-mouse game. Its gleeful dark wit comes from manipulations, voyeurism, the idea that we all invade each other's lives and thoughts.
Less focused than most of (writer-director Francois) Ozon's previous films. It is difficult to decide with which character we as viewers/pseudo-participants are supposed to empathize. More off-putting than fully satisfying in the end.
Even though the buildup doesn't yield the anticipated payoff, [In the House] remains a slick, artful and highly entertaining ride.
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Foreign Titles
- In ihrem Haus (DE)
- In the House (Dans la maison) (UK)
