An ominous and foreboding quality -- a sense of menace -- lingers in the background of Ursula Meier’s
Home. Some reviews have interpreted the film as blackly comic or satirical, but there is little humorous about it. Instead, apocalypse seems to be ever-present on the horizon, and Meier’s approach involves bringing the terrors of that tumult into the middle of a French family, and making it palpable for the audience. The movie is difficult to pinpoint at first -- perhaps because it resists genre classification as a comedy or a traditional drama -- but it ultimately recalls such predecessors as Todd Haynes’
Safe (1995), Henry Bean’s
Noise (2007), ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins