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Home (2008)

  • 94% of critics liked it
    (35 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (2,251 ratings)

Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 58 min.
Directed By
Ursula Meier
Written By
Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier, Olivier Lorelle
Genres
Documentary, Drama, Art House & International
In Theaters
May 1, 2009 Limited
On DVD
Jun 23, 2009
Diaphana Films

Critic Reviews

  • Janice Page, Boston Globe

    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.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

    Though the cautionary symbolism is clear here, the committee-written film (there were five scribes including Meier), smartly keeps its message quotient in check.

  • Andrew Schenker, Village Voice

    Working with all-star DP Agnès Godard, Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy.

  • Rob Nelson, Variety

    Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    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.

  • Greg S


    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;… More

  • Gordon A


    Certainly scores for originality but left me a little cold with its aloof pretensions.

  • Walter M


    "Home" is an offbeat and endearing movie that makes beautiful use out of its unique setting. Michel(Olivier Gourmet) and Marthe(Isabelle Huppert) moved to the middle of nowhere after her nervours breakdown ten years previously. A highway was built by their house but never… More

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