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Private Property

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Based on 11 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Joachim Lafosse
François Pirot
Directed by: Joachim Lafosse
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 18, 2007
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: Belgium / France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier, Kris Cuppens, Patrick Descamps, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Sabine Riche, and Dirk Tuypens
An old, but beautiful farm in Belgium is home to Pascale (Huppert) and her twin sons Thierry and Francois (Jérémie and Yannick Renier). Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. (New Yorker Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
An impeccably acted character drama revolving around a mother and her teenage twin sons, Private Property shows how strong and how terrifying the bonds within families can be. Directed by Belgium's Joachim Lafosse, it etches the line between love and hate with a savagery that is almost unprecedented.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
What draws us into Private Property is how so many things happen under the surface, never commented upon.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Like many French films of its kind, Private Property remains content to simply observe a situation without tidying up the narrative, which in this case leaves some big questions unanswered. But Lafosse knows that problems that beg for a resolution sometimes don't get one.
Read Full Review >Variety Jay Weissberg
Boasting a script so clear and airtight that shrinks could use it for family therapy courses, the sole caveat is the unrelenting unpleasantness of the stronger-willed son.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Private Property embraces the banal and the monstrous, and affords Ms. Huppert opportunity to astonish rather than overwhelm.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Huppert is, as usual, superb, proving yet again that she is the finest actress working in France today.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Lafosse's razor sharp dissection of relationships strained to the breaking point is hypnotic in a road-accident kind of way.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Tasha Robinson
Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Isabelle Huppert gets a respite from her usual ice queen roles with this shattering psychological drama about the danger of children staying too long in the nest.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Pascale is the movie’s most defined character, and its most repugnant. Whatever sympathy we can muster for her boils down to Huppert’s richly layered portrayal.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The performances are impeccable, but while director Joachim Lafosse carefully creates an atmosphere of suffocating dread, he could have let a little more air into this simmering hothouse.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
