Home

Audience Reviews

View More

May 12, 2021 Like Mike Leigh made a movie with Claire Denis after seeing an Eric Rohmer retrospective, "Home" is a remarkable film with an equal sense of bare realism and the absurdity we find in existentialism. The performances by all the family members is exceptional. There is such a natural, authentic familial chemistry and warmth here. Hell, even the grown sister bathes with her pre-adolescent brother. The approaches taken by each family member to the dilemma of the new highway is extreme paranoia to wanting to flee, feigned indifference to a rather somnambulist denial. Not to say it's all bleak or bizarre, overly arty or serious. The movie has a number of light moments. The family clearly is a tight, loving unit; but one with a presence in the constant rush of traffic all day long and into the night. But bricking yourself off from the encroachment of urbanization is not gonna make it go away. Seems they're trying to make at least one of their points that withdrawing from a major problem (or over-isolating yourself from it) is inherently wrong as it can change you in negative ways. Admirable work by director Meier and screenwriter Jaccoud. 3.8 stars See more

May 29, 2015 Ursula Meier's study of an eccentric family's slide from bohemian happiness to a shared state of poor health and insanity. It is successful as both a psychological study and environmental commentary. And, it is also almost hypnotically entertaining. See more

Sep 7, 2014 A quiet and effective film. See more

Aug 30, 2014 Bizarro stangeness that ends on a memorable note. See more

Mar 15, 2014 Though it takes a while to get going - needing to establish that this family is happy and loves each other before the story complicates - this is a film that dramatizes its complaint about the pace of modern life very well. It sways back and forth between the realist and the absurd, and the way its walls close in is chilling. I really liked this one - Switzerland's submission for Best Foreign Language film in its year of release. See more

Jan 22, 2011 D'un sujet qui aurait pu se prêter à une certaine forme d'humour noir - la mise en service d'une autoroute va bouleverser le quotidien d'une famille riveraine - cette co-production francophone prend la route d'un drame qui, l'air de ne pas y toucher, progresse paisiblement vers une conclusion dont on devine dès le depart qu'elle ne sera pas rose. Les strategies de lutte contre l'adversite perdent rapidement leur côte decale à mesure que cette petite bulle d'harmonie familiale se fissure sous les offensives d'un monde exterieur bruyant et impersonnel (il n'y a en effet aucun intervenant exterieur à la famille!). A la logique de resistance deletère dans laquelle s'enferme cette famille soumise à une bouleversement sur lequel elle n'a aucune prise repond une asphyxie, reelle cette fois, dans une demeure integralement muree pour attenuer les nuisances sonores. Dans cette fable grinçante sur une "impossible solitude", on retrouve, en pire et en mieux pense, un schema d'implosion familiale qui n'est pas sans rappeler le fameux "Sitcom" de François Ozon, et ce microcosme qui finit par ne plus obeir qu'à sa propre logique pour survivre annonce dejà le glauque et grec "Kynodonthas". Un drame europeen comme on aimerait en voir plus souvent qui, sous un vernis d'absurde, en revèle finalement beaucoup plus sur tous les sujets que beaucoup d'autres. See more

Read all reviews

Home

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING