In Pepita dress on the crash.

Living on the edge of a motorway stretch unbefahrenen: In Ursula Meier's film "Home" are the characters so unusual as her residence. What begins as Familiengroteske, turns out to be a clever parable on the expulsion from Paradise.

 

It's like these double images in the puzzle books, which by nine errors differ. Since this is heaven, at first sight, summer blue and bright. And yet we recognize that a few miles away the city and transport their grubby mix colors. Even the silence is so that they are without their counterpart not quite imagine. It is more like a breaking a ceaseless noise than a quiet secluded provenance.

And finally there are those people who, prima facie, a bit trashy and unkempt. In any case, so that in the cinema must always accept the fate they would like in passing along huge dive, until it is small and gray and look completely pathetic. But in her kingdom in "Home" are a peculiar lights on.

And it can still be a lot of mistakes and irritations list, but since one is already in the midst of this wise, amazing, tragicomic, small, big debut work of Swiss director Ursula Meier, to the Jacques Tati and Pasolini recalls. Because it in unexpected moments of being stubborn and in the foreseeable supposedly surprised. Because it is with his characters endureth, when you need it and to the amazement of human states of emergency has kept.

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"Home"
Trailer and Film Clips

Film clip: "Good morning"
Film clip: "This time they come"
Film clip: "You heard nothing"

It is a peculiar luck to unbefahrenen a motorway stretch. A shabby house that is so isolated as the only other movie "Psycho"-real estate. The viewer is literally suspended between a couple of good to himself, lazing or playing werkelnden people. A durchgesessene sofa furniture, deck chairs, grill, hockey sticks and other toys, or are simply distributed over a roadway, which was not finished, and never be finished, and just for the fun of the family occasionally even as a private runway traffic is .

The son with outstretched arms to slide along the barrier up and down. The oldest daughter lies down in bikini in the sun and spins on their ghetto blaster. Your sister makes sensible homework. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) depends on laundry or cleaning the vegetables from the garden under the kitchen window. There is a ping pong table, the Bauruine a swimming pool, which the father (Olivier Gourmet) in these summer holidays finally ready to put. An idiosyncratic property, so perfect in its own way and so tentative at the same time.

Its anarchy is its demonstrative Sichselbstgenügen, in his indifference to any social connection. Its internal structure, but through a touching Kleinbürgerlichkeit that draped to the happiness of the fifties recalls.

Mother Martha is blessed here, they do not want to return to the city. Whatever occurred which may be given. If Martha wants to make it wippenden with Pepita-chic dresses, with their children climb over the rails, walk through the adjacent fields and makes a big tree at a picnic. And when Father Michel, craftsmen, in cowboy boots, with gegelten hair, humming from work to his family back and his delicate wife mighty arms around the waist sets, it is clear that the couple, his rockabilly romance preserved. And that only ignoramuses in this untidy, and reverie in his way of life nothing more than recognize Prolltum want, which is probably out of shame and pride, not the rest of civilization away.

If "Home" at night with his protagonists in this monstrous silence at this strange enchanted place listens, understands you, who here plays Idylle. But we also feel, how manic unconditionality its inhabitants are increasingly on their empire einbunkern. The invasion is only a matter of time. And one day, then roll actually the first building on.

HOME (SWITZERLAND, 2008)

Director: Ursula Meier
Screenplay: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Raphaelle Valbrune, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Lorelle
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Oliver Gourmet, Adelaide Leroux,
Production Company: Box Productions, Archipelago, Need Productions
Rental: Arsenal
Duration: 97 minutes
Start: 25 June 2009
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The family verstöpselt the ears, mauert windows and doors, padded walls, moves into the basement and blink only by an air slot in the outside world. You must be connected to the disaster sentiment in Michael Haneke films think. There is the same wordless, the same cold aggression, the same disturbing unconditionality. The trucks and cars come at some point on the finished motorway angebraust first individually, then in the sheet metal snakes of the holiday traffic jams.

That is the deadlock, which is the image on the film all the time is also keen. Because in that moment the true pathology of the family to endure the self-noise insulation to the arrest of post-modern mobility euphoria. And Ursula Meier is so clever, not a position to win points to emerge.

"Home", among others, the Swiss Film Prize 2009 was awarded Quartz, is not environmentally-conservative fairy tale, not a song on the High utopia to her. It is a very clever sly parable about a modern expulsion from Paradise, and about happiness, which makes it only as manic Weltverleugnung can give. A double screen full of errors and mistakes. And the biggest perhaps denying that a decommissioned highway leg, above all there is to fly her to practice.