Private Property

Belgian writer-director Joachim Lafosse's subtle slice of family dysfunction unfolds against the backdrop of a picturesque house in the French countryside, where a divorced mother and her two grown sons play out an increasingly bitter drama of intense mutual dependence and suffocating frustration.

Middle-aged and restless, the divorced Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) shares what was once the family house with her sons, fraternal twins Thierry and Francois and (brothers Jeremie and Yannick Renier), who are in their 20s and showing no signs of doing anything with their lives. Angry, overbearing Thierry, superficially the more adult of the two, is half-heartedly ta...