TRIBUTES AND RETROSPECTIVES

Isabelle Huppert, European

Home

Ursula Meier
2008 - Switzerland / France / Belgium - 1h38

Screenings : tuesday 23 - 7:45 pm - 400 Coups - 5

In the middle of the quiet, deserted countryside stretches an abandoned motorway as far as the eye can see, unused since it was built. At the edge of the tarmac, just a few metres from the safety barriers, stands an isolated house where a family lives. Work the motorway is about to start again and it has been announced that it will soon be open to traffic...

“Warning, UFO. This first feature-length film by a Swiss director noted for her short films and a TV drama, Des épaules solides (Broad Shoulders), turns a family chronicle into a fantastic fable. Home features a couple and their three children living peacefully on the edge of an abandoned motorway. When construction resumes and the first cars arrive, the family harmony breaks down. Engulfed by exhaust fumes and the roar of engines, the family suffocates. Especially the mother, played by Isabelle Huppert, who is as strong as she is fragile. Resplendent colours, frames within frames, the energy of the actors: everything works together to make this strange story a fascinating metaphor for our lifestyles and the illusion of being alone in the world. Intriguing without posing, clever without intellectualising, Home is a revelation”. (Isabelle Danel; Première)

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein
Screenplay : Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Raphaëlle Desplechin, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Lorelle, Alice Winocour
Cinematography : Agnès Godard
Editing : François Gédigier, Nelly Quettier, Susana Rossberg

Production : Box Productions, Archipel 35, Need Productions

French distributor : Diaphana