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French. Budget. €5.7 million [1] Box office. $2.5 million [2] Home is a 2008 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier, starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
- $2.5 million
- Denis Delcampe
- €5.7 million
A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. They continue their happy-go-lucky routine despite the daily stress of hundreds of noisy ...
Home. 2008. Switzerland, France, Belgium. 97 minutes. VO French – DE, IT subtitles. A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment.
Cast. 98 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home ...
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Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in the midst of rush-hour traffic.
Mar 26, 2020 · Home (2008) Ursula Meier takes an interesting approach to an altogether bizarre, yet believable story. The tone slowly shifts from a light-hearted, uniquely French drama to a surreal display of paranoia and claustrophobic nihilism. The family’s quirky traits turn into annoying flaws once they find themselves trapped together, unable to cope ...
Despite its somewhat artificial premise, Home is a convincing and perceptive examination of a family struggling to hold itself together against a seemingly insuperable threat, a Swiss Family Robinson for our time. Ursula Meier's imaginative screenplay and direction are superbly complemented by Agnès Godard's evocative cinematography and ...
