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  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 35 m
Private Property

Summary 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)

Directed By: Joachim Lafosse

Written By: François Pirot, Joachim Lafosse

  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Private Property

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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)

Directed By: Joachim Lafosse

Written By: François Pirot, Joachim Lafosse

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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.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
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Private Property embraces the banal and the monstrous, and affords Ms. Huppert opportunity to astonish rather than overwhelm.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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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.
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Huppert is, as usual, superb, proving yet again that she is the finest actress working in France today.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Tarantula, MACT Productions, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Wallimage, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Sogécinéma 2, Cofinova 2, Fonds National de Soutien à la Production Audiovisuelle du Luxembourg, La Wallonie, Tarantula
Release Date May 18, 2007
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Superb... Shades Of Early Polanski.
Website http://www.hautetcourt.com/fiche.php?pkfilms=124
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Belgian Film Critics Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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