Call this one a “home-grown” selection. Developed at Cannes’ workshop “L’Atelier du Festival” in 06′, Swiss helmer Ursula Meier‘s second feature has been added to Critics’ Week sidebar.
Filmed in Romania, Home takes place Amid a peaceful, deserted countryside, extends as far as the eye can see, an empty four-lane motorway, with the still immaculate asphalt, inactive ever since its construction already some years ago. By its side, just a few yards from the guardrails, stands a lonely house with a small garden. In it, lives a family. It is the start of summer and the motorway is about to be opened to traffic. Olivier
Gourmet and Isabelle
Huppert star as the displaced family who are “planted” on the edge of the motorway, a few meters from the thousands of exhaust pipes, in an ever more infernal, unending din, the family loses its bearings and fragile balance, and ends up by shutting themselves in, becoming increasingly marginalized, and gradually sinking into madness.
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