Day 5: Live from Cannes: Disadvantages of being at ‘Home’

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It was the last film to join the Critic’s Week sidebar and dubbed as a “Special Screening”. It was a packed house at the Espace Miramar theater, where an entire film crew was on hand (minus lead actress Isabelle Huppert) for Ursula Meier‘s Home. While the premise was enough to make me actually present myself at the screening, the story of a family of five living in front of a defunct and then fully operational highway is so ill-conceived, tediously long – that I wanted to leave after the first 15 minutes. I stayed until the end. [Note: Full review coming soon].

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(From Left to R: Ursula Meier, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd and Kacey Mottet Klein)

Home Ursula Meier Cannes

Adélaïde Leroux

Home Ursula Meier Cannes

Madeleine Budd and Kacey Mottet Klein

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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