Home 2008 film ursula meier

Yet with her bigscreen feature debut home, ursula meier has used such a setting to construct what she describes as a road movie in reverse, where the main characters, far from moving on, recede further and further into themselves as they struggle to accommodate the everchanging world of the road beyond to the fragile security and stasis of their domestic situation. Its the skill of ursula meier, the director and cowriter, to bring us to those fraught passages by rational stages. Home is a 2008 drama film directed by ursula meier, produced by denis delcampe, and written by ursula meier and antoine jaccoud. Her short films and documentaries successes allowed her to get worldwide recognition. 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. Home 2008 film ursula meier, director home facebook. In showing a familys selfdestructive intransigence or is it selfpreserving cohesion. 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. Shock waves diary of my mind ursula meier returns in short, sharp form with this needling, factbased moral puzzler, brilliantly performed by fanny ardant and kacey mottet. Swissfrench film maker ursula meier describes her hypnotic, fairytale feature debut as a road movie in reverse. There are two questions never answered in the french film home. The film was the official swiss submission for best. Michelolivier gourmet and martheisabelle huppert moved to the middle of.

You are browsing the website, which contains photos and videos of nude celebrities. Domestic tragicomedy, with isabelle huppert and olivier. The film also received a cesar nomination for best first film and a best film nomination at argentinas mar del plata film festival. Its a deft fable about the intrusion of the mechanical modern world, as a. In the middle of a calm and barren countryside an empty twolane highway stretches as far as the eye can see. What happens would not make sense in many households, but in this one, it represents a certain continuity, and confirms deep currents we sensed. It stars isabelle huppert as marthe, olivier gourmet as michel, adelaide leroux as judith, madeleine budd as marion, and kacey mottet klein as julien. A family on the edge of nowhere, lost in the middle of fields, living in a ramshackle house along side an abandoned highway.

Ursula meier has been searching for location for nearly one year, even in canada. Home is an arthouse domestic comedy with a tragic undercurrent. The first feature from ursula meier who later made sister, this portrait of a family living in a house next to an unused motorway makes for an intriguing allegory partly comic, partly disturbing about the trials and tribulations of contemporary life. She was chosen to be part of artes collection of tv movies malefeminine. Home, ursula meier 2008 ursula meiers domestic tragicomedy home takes a family and unravels them thread by thread. Home is an offbeat and endearing movie that makes beautiful use out of its unique setting. Latinautor umpg, warner chappell, shapiro bernstein, pedl. Relishing their distance from the rest of society, the clan stage makeshift hockey matches, sunbathe in deckchairs near the road, and hold au. D escribed by director ursula meier as a road movie in reverse, home is an assured and unsettling comedy. In 2008, her movie home was part of the official competition in cannes and received several distinctions and awards, including three. Watch home, the french dysfunctional family film by ursula meier. Directed by ursula meier produced by archipel 35 genres. Described by director ursula meier as a road movie in reverse, home is an assured and unsettling comedy. 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.

He is a mechanic, or a builder, good with his hands. 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. As i always say, each film i make involves taking risks. Frenchswiss director ursula meier debut feature film has been described as a road movie in reverse. Home ursula meier, isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet. It hasnt been used since it was built a few years ago and has been left to to decay. Domestic tragicomedy, with isabelle huppert and olivier gourmet. Ursula meier is a frenchswiss film director and screenwriter who received the best director award at the 2008 festival du film francophone dangouleme for her first theatrical feature, home, which won the 2009 swiss film prize for bester spielfilm as well as bestes drehbuch. Ursula meier was born on june 24, 1971 in besancon, doubs, france. Right beside the asphalt invaded by weeds, only a few feet from the security. Ursula meier scenario, antoine jaccoud scenario 4 more credits. Though it takes a while to get going needing to establish that this family is happy and loves each other before the.

Ursula meier has achieved a remarkable feat with home, her feature debut the film s strength, and its charm, lies in how the themes exploredfear of change, atomization of family, contemporary manmade neuroses, the irresistible tide of urbanizationare thoroughly and lovingly enwrapped in humor and imagery. Licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of verve reissues. Impressive debut from ursula meier about a family whose dynamics change when the highway they live next to is about to open to traffic. But in home, a botched but rather beautiful eco parable from ursula meier, huppert takes on possibly her. The house in which the movie plays, was built alongside the highway especially for filming. Interesting premise, surprisingly funny, with strong performances by huppert and gourmet, as expected, accompanied by a very. I wrote the script as an antiroad movie, as a metaphor for people who want to live outside the. The house in which the movie plays, was built alongside the highway. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Its the skill of ursula meier, the director and cowriter, to bring us to those. There were up to 300 drivers playing the fast moving cars all were inhabitants of a nearby village. The frenchswiss director, ursula meier, making her feature debut, has wittily characterized the film as the opposite of a road movie, it is its. Wayward girl lesley selander the enchanted desna yuliya sointseva ratcatcher lynne ramsay hedi schneider is stuck sonja heiss night games mai zetterling oxhide 2 liu jiayin tailpiece margaret tait the house is black forough farrokhzad safe antonia bird home ursula meier story of the flaming years yuliya solntseva homeland. Kasaravalli retrospective at bengaluru international film festival 2012.

Marthe isabelle huppert and her husband olivier gourmet live in a small home in rural france with their three children. Eventually she found a lost part of a highway in bulgaria. Home 2008 film ursula meier, director posts facebook. Home is a 2008 swiss drama film directed by ursula meier and starring isabelle huppert and olivier gourmet.

Marthe isabelle huppert and michel olivier gourmet lead a happily isolated life with their kids on the edge of an abandoned highway. Something will have to give, and it does, as the movie grows more and more dark. Best actress international competition san francisco international film festival. With a bit of luck hell have it finished for the summer holidays. Oct 8, 2015 home 2008 ursula meier isabelle huppert, olivier gourmet. The film was the official swiss submission for best foreign language film at the 82nd academy awards, but was not nominated. 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. Every day, he takes the skilift to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from the rich tourists to resell to the local kids back down. An ominous and foreboding quality a sense of menace lingers in the background of ursula meier s home. The sense of freedom and detachment from the rest of the world they enjoy soon transforms into confinement, desperation, and violence.