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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Ursula Meier
Alice Winocour
Antoine Jaccoud
Olivier Lorelle

Directed by: Ursula Meier

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 27, 2009

Running Time: 98 minutes, Color

Origin: Switzerland | France | Belgium

Language(s): French

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adelaide Leroux , and Madeleine Budd

In Ursula Meier’s stunning theatrical debut (the official Swiss submission for this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Film), a family finds themselves pushed to dangerous extremes when a busy highway is opened right next to their isolated property. (Lorber Films)

What The Critics Said

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80

Empire David Parkinson

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

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

In this season of Hollywood blockbusters, small movies can get lost in the hype. Don't let that happen to Home.

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70

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Home is, as with so many family stories, also something of a disaster movie: the walls shudder and crack, and eventually so do the people inside them.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Erica Abeel

A provocative parable about individuals at war with development and the global economy.

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70

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

Enjoyable, involving dramedy.

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70

Variety Rob Nelson

Typically sharp work by d.p. Agnes Godard and lead thesp Isabelle Huppert.

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70

Village Voice Andrew Schenker

Ursula Meier's confident, appealingly bizarre theatrical debut.

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60

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

Terrific performances and superb cinematography (by Claire Denis’s right hand, Agnès Godard) lift cowriter-director Ursula Meier’s feature debut above its thuddingly metaphorical premise.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

This is, in its way, a horror movie -- not least because it will burrow into your own brain, as a reminder of all the ways the modern world is making you crazy, too.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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