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Switzerland, France, Belgium · 2008
1h 38m
Director Ursula Meier
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein
Genre Drama

Marthe and Michel live next to an abandoned highway in rural France with their three children. But one day without warning, construction work begins on the highway, which soon becomes flooded with traffic. With the family’s tranquil lifestyle upended, they become more and more isolated in this claustrophobic drama.

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Empire by David Parkinson

A deeply disconcerting provocation about the future of civilisation: a powerfully performed vision of an insignificant humanity.

60

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

Terrific performances and superb cinematography (by Claire Denis’s right hand, Agnès Godard) lift cowriter-director Ursula Meier’s feature debut above its thuddingly metaphorical premise.

70

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Home is, as with so many family stories, also something of a disaster movie: the walls shudder and crack, and eventually so do the people inside them.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

What happens would not make sense in many households, but in this one, it represents a certain continuity, and confirms deep currents we sensed almost from the first.

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