Home (2008 film)

Home is a film of Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier from the year 2008.

Action

A family of five has been living in a single house right next to a half-finished highway. The for ten years not built road uses them quite naturally as habitat and playing surface, life is happy and carefree.

One day the route is, however, surprising completed and opened to traffic. Thus the strange idyll is abruptly ended.

Initially, the family members whose path is now locked into the city from the highway trying to arrange in different ways with the new situation they initially find amusing, but little by little they are driven by the side-effects of traffic to despair. The mother finds almost no sleep. The scientifically minded Marion notes a high lead contamination of home-grown foods. The adult Judith, until then quite indifferent acting, one day disappear.

When the father summarizes the spontaneous decision to leave the house immediately, his wife refuses: it is their home, they could never start over. You stay. As predicted by Marion as a result of exposure to lead, the people are becoming more aggressive against each other. Even the ten-year Julien, the actually all like, is no longer able to mediate between the very different characters.

Finally, the father doors and windows walled up and insulates all exterior walls with glass wool, whereupon it is indeed quiet, but in the resulting fortress, where the family now lives without contact with the outside world, neither fresh air nor light can reach. As a result, people are increasingly sluggish and tend increasingly to be completely irrational behavior. Apartment and residents go to, the social handling decreases to a minimum.

When Judith return some day, but can not find a way into the house and departs again, the mother awakens from a long sleep. With his last strength she tears down bricking up the front door, after which the family members as unexpectedly freed prisoners leave the house in their sleeping clothes, without even take anything.

Production

Ursula Meier has been looking for almost a year for a suitable location for the filming. Even in Canada was looking for a deserted highway. In Bulgaria, Meier found it. The house, in and on which almost all the scenes of the movie were filmed, was rebuilt on the wide road. Also the road was resurfaced, which is also part of some movie scenes. The up to 300 drivers, which were required for the rapid pass-by up to 120 km / h were residents of a nearby town. " The drivers were very happy. Know before you no cinema ," says the director. At the rotating days off the Bulgarians came by with their entire families and visited the location.

It premiered in France on 18 May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival. In the cinema, the film was in Switzerland on 15 October 2008, in France on 29 October 2008 in Belgium on 12 November 2008 and in Germany on 25 June 2009.

Reviews

" The originality of this fable would have fascinated Jacques Tati ... "

"More and more oppressive, the atmosphere leading the film with merciless consistency to the climax. The home Liberation skin to pieces. Welcome to reality. "

" ' Home ' is a bizarre mixture of grotesque comedy and drama, thriller, eco disasters, horror and science fiction film. Above all, it is a film about the instance of the family - as resistive cell to the outside world, but equally as destructive apparatus, which is directed against themselves, imploding. "

Awards

  • Best Cinematography: Agnès Godard
  • Best debut: Ursula Meier
  • Best Art Direction: Ivan Niclass
  • Best Emerging Actor or Actress: Kacey Mottet Klein
  • Best Feature Film: Ursula Meier
  • Best Screenplay: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud
  • Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert
  • Best Cinematography: Agnès Godard
  • Best Cinematography: Agnès Godard
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