30/10/2008

Released in France on Wednesday, Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile] has been received by critics with rare enthusiasm, confirming the positive response to its Cannes Critics’ Week screening. With the exception of film magazine Positif, which expresses reservations about the film’s form, all the major French press publications – specialised and mainstream alike – shower praise upon the film by Swiss-French director Ursula Meier.

Libération – which devotes the two opening pages of its “Cinéma du mercredi” section to Home – commends the film for "finding a new angle from which to explore the theme of the neurotic family, that support system that makes you go mad". Le Monde commented: "Rare are the films that really stretch to its limits the thread of an unpredictable plot". Meanwhile Elle magazine believes that Home "proves that auteur films aren’t necessarily Parisian".

Télérama’s journalist is not afraid to cite John Cassavetes and Roman Polanski, before adding that these are "superfluous references because Home’s main quality is its perfect originality". According to Les Inrockuptibles, the film is "at the miraculous crossroads between two opposing influences: US classicism and a certain European modernity".

Equally laudatory, popular publications Première and Studio hail the birth of a filmmaker, while Ciné Live takes its hat off to "an extremely well thought-out debut narrative feature, in which symbols abound, like an element of strangeness in an enlightened production".

(Translated from French)