Home Movie Ursula Meier

What happens would not make sense in many households but in this one it represents a certain continuity and confirms deep currents we sensed.

Rose bowl drive in movie theater. Relishing their distance from the rest of society the clan stage makeshift hockey matches sunbathe in deckchairs near the road and hold au. Directed by ursula meier. Trailers when i was 14 i was the oldest i ever was.

The french swiss director ursula meier making her feature debut has wittily characterized the film as the opposite of a road movie it is its negation in some way which becomes more. Ursula meier doesnt have any movies playing in theaters. D escribed by director ursula meier as a road movie in reverse home is an assured and unsettling comedy.

If you feel like heading out check out other movies in theaters. Her short films and documentaries successes allowed her to get worldwide recognition. With isabelle huppert olivier gourmet adelaide leroux madeleine budd.

Marthe isabelle huppert and michel olivier gourmet lead a happily isolated life with their kids on the edge of an abandoned highway. Ursula meier was born on june 24 1971 in besancon doubs france. She was chosen to be part of artes collection of tv movies malefeminine and directed in 2002 strong shouldersin 2008 her movie home was part of the official competition in cannes and received several distinctions and awards including three.

The open highway stretches to the horizon in both directions promising all the freedom and all the narrative mobility of a road movieyet with her big screen feature debut home ursula meier has used such a setting. Home first published by film4. 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.

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. She is a director and writer known for sister 2012 home 2008 and tous a table 2001. Frenchswiss director ursula meier debut feature film has been described as a road movie in reverse.

Its the skill of ursula meier the director and co writer to bring us to those fraught passages by rational stages. Ursula meier studied film at the iad in belgium. Something will have to give and it does as the movie grows more and more dark.