What happens would not make sense in many households, but in this one, it represents a certain continuity, and confirms deep currents we sensed. The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. The twins do not carry a very upbeat and cheerful outlook on life like most 10yearolds have. Class lines drawn in the snow in surprising sibling drama. Financial analysis of home 2008 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
The house in which the movie plays, was built alongside the highway. There are two questions never answered in the french film home. Ursula meiers feature debut is a surreal drama depicting a family frozen to the spot by the oncoming headlights of progress. The open highway stretches to the horizon in both directions, promising all the freedom, and all the narrative mobility, of a road movie. Marthe isabelle huppert and michel olivier gourmet lead a happily isolated life with their kids on the edge of an abandoned highway. The swiss director of home and sister has returned to concision.
The film is about simon who lives with his older sister louise in a housing complex below a luxury ski resort. Michelolivier gourmet and martheisabelle huppert moved to the middle of nowhere after her nervours. Halloween 4 the night he came home full movie duration. Meier is best known for directing home, her feature debut, and sister, which won the. Ursula meier scenario, antoine jaccoud scenario 4 more credits.
Modest and cluttered, it sits by a highway practically on the highway, really in a stretch of rural europe where it seems perfectly plausible for a family of five to hide in plain sight. Oct 8, 2015 home 2008 ursula meier isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet stay safe and healthy. The film was the official swiss submission for best foreign language film at the 82nd academy awards, but was not nominated. Home by ursula meier isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet.
Ursula meiers domestic tragicomedy home takes a family and unravels them thread by thread. Simon and his sister live in a small apartment beneath a popular ski resort in the swiss alps. Find ursula meier movies, filmography, bio, co stars, photos, news and tweets. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the ursula meier directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we. A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated home. On january 11, 2008 josh cohen and his associates, lawyers of the city of cleveland, bring to justice the 21 banks they judge responsible of the foreclosures devastating their city.
Directed by ursula meier, it turns on a 12yearold, simon kacey mottet klein, a heartbreaker, a cunning survivalist hustling to fill his belly and that of his lovely, troubled, perennially. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road and the highway becomes open to traffic. In the middle of a calm and barren countryside an empty twolane highway stretches as far as the eye can see. In ursula meiers stunning theatrical debut the official swiss submission for this years academy award. Locarno, switzerland ursula meier, one of europes most highlyrated women film directors, will make her englishlanguage debut with quiet land, a noirish dramathriller set in the u. It hasnt been used since it was built a few years ago and has been left to to decay. Home is a 2008 swiss drama film by ursula meier in her stunning theatrical debut the official swiss submission for this years academy award for best foreign film, a family, headed by isabelle huppert, finds themselves pushed to dangerous extremes when a busy highway, constructed a decade before but apparently abandoned, is opened right. Marthe isabelle huppert and michel olivier gourmet live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. Domestic tragicomedy, with isabelle huppert and olivier gourmet.
Top 10 slowest historical torture methods we cant believe living souls had to endure duration. Oct 05, 2012 directed by ursula meier, it turns on a 12yearold, simon kacey mottet klein, a heartbreaker, a cunning survivalist hustling to fill his belly and that of his lovely, troubled, perennially. Frenchswiss director ursula meier debut feature film has been described as a road movie in reverse. But in home, a botched but rather beautiful eco parable from ursula meier, huppert takes on possibly her least fathomable heroine to date. Best actress and best foreign language film 2017 golden globe awards michle seems indestructible. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. The poe family lives upstate new york, in the heavily wooded part of the area. Apr 16, 2010 meiers soft touch with the offbeat material is surprisingly mature, to the point of maybe being a bit too reserved. With isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet, adelaide leroux, madeleine budd. The opening of a new expressway disrupts the lives of a rural french couple isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet and their three children. An entire household is caught in traffic thanks to the opening of a new superhighway in this satiric comedy drama from swiss filmmaker ursula meier.
The house at the center of home is nothing special. Home on dvd july 28, 2015 starring jim parsons, rihanna, steve martin. Relishing their distance from the rest of society, the clan stage makeshift hockey matches, sunbathe in deckchairs near the road, and hold au. Home 2008 cast and crew the opening of a new expressway disrupts the lives of a rural french couple isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet and their three children. Her direction is supported by a cast that keeps it real, and a veteran cinematographer agnes godard who does right by the landscape and its inhabitants, all of which come across as quirky, beautiful, and scarred. Oct 8, 2015 home 2008 ursula meier isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet.
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, tv and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. I wrote the script as an antiroad movie, as a metaphor for people who want to live outside the walls but at the same time need them. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. When earth is taken over by the overlyconfident boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocate. D escribed by director ursula meier as a road movie in reverse, home is an assured and unsettling comedy. An ominous and foreboding quality a sense of menace lingers in the background of ursula meier s home.
Virgil berset, ivailo ivanov, jeanfrancois stevenin, ursula meier, denis delcampe. Home 2008 involves a family of five, mum and dad played by isabelle huppert and oliver gourmet and their three children who for ten years have incorporated an abandoned motorway as part of their front garden. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes michles life forever. A great film about a family living together complete with problems associated. Home is an offbeat and endearing movie that makes beautiful use out of its unique setting. Its the skill of ursula meier, the director and cowriter, to bring us to those fraught passages by rational stages.
You cant see the house when the film opens at night, though you can just make. Marthe isabelle huppert and her husband olivier gourmet live in a small home in rural france with their three children. Aug 06, 2009 but in home, a botched but rather beautiful eco parable from ursula meier, huppert takes on possibly her least fathomable heroine to date. Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened. Financial analysis of home 2008 including budget, domestic and international box office gross. Ursula meier unravels a modern fable in which the forces of conservatism and change pass each other by. It is a story about the divide between the rich and wealthy who holiday at the summit in their luxurious ski resort and the locals who.
Thats partly because the highway bisects miles and miles of mostly unpopulated grasslands. Ursula meiers domestic allegory home is way too close. Isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet, adelaide leroux. The film was the official swiss submission for best. Dec 16, 2009 directed by ursula meier produced by archipel 35 genres. Ursula meiers second feature film is a compelling social realist drama set in the glamorous holiday destination of the swiss alps. Jaccoud, gilles taurand, olivier lorelle, raphaelle desplechin. Home 2008 involves a family of five, mum and dad played by isabelle huppert and oliver gourmet and their three children who for ten years have incorporated. Trailer for ursula meiers bleak coming of age tale. While those roles havent exactly garnered the attention she might have hoped for, her big break might actually come in the form of a project closer to home with ursula meiers lenfant d.
These two entitiesroad and houseseem to exist in a twilightzone. Right beside the asphalt invaded by weeds, only a few feet from the security. Ursula meier movies, interviews and news sbs movies. Yet with her bigscreen feature debut home, ursula meier has used such a setting. Michelolivier gourmet and martheisabelle huppert moved to the middle of. Academy awards nominee best actress isabelle huppert winner. A young boy from the swiss alps resorts to stealing in order to survive, and finds his relationship with his erratic older sister growing increasingly strained in this desolate yet picturesque character study from director ursula meier. Oct 29, 2008 marthe isabelle huppert and michel olivier gourmet live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. Home is a 2008 swiss drama film directed by ursula meier and starring isabelle huppert and olivier gourmet. Swiss filmmaker ursula meier is set to preside over the camera dor jury at the cannes film festival, whose mission is to select the best first film presented in cannes official selection, critics week or directors fortnight.
Directed by ursula meier produced by archipel 35 genres. Ursula meier was born on june 24, 1971 in besancon, doubs, france. Home 2008 film ursula meier, director home facebook. The film opens to a game of hockey on a stretch of abandoned road, next to the house in which marthe isabelle huppert, michel olivier gourmet and their three children reside. Something will have to give, and it does, as the movie grows more and more dark. Sister, directed by ursula meier the new york times. Aug 05, 2018 locarno, switzerland ursula meier, one of europes most highlyrated women film directors, will make her englishlanguage debut with quiet land, a noirish dramathriller set in the u. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the ursula meierdirected movie via subscription can be confusing, so we. Yearning to watch home on your tv, phone, or tablet. Ursula meier makes englishlanguage debut with quiet land. An ominous and foreboding quality a sense of menace lingers in the background of ursula meiers home. Jul 10, 2012 while those roles havent exactly garnered the attention she might have hoped for, her big break might actually come in the form of a project closer to home with ursula meiers lenfant d.
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