In the House (2012)
(Dans la maison)
Country: FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
A teacher of French in a lycée encourages the writing talent of a socially deprived pupil, who has ingratiated himself with the family of a classmate by helping with his maths. However, there is a tension between his attempts to discourage the student's increasingly invasive critique of the family's petit-bourgeois existence, for literature's sake, and his own unhealthy curiosity born of intellectual snobbery and innate superiority.
Review:
At times reminiscent of a gallic Woody Allen film, particularly in the wife's modern art exhibits, and the scenes where Luchini presents himself inside the student's visualized written extracts, Ozon's literary jeu d'esprit at least wears its borrowings lightly (Leconte, Blier, Ruiz have all been here in differing ways) and recalls the sexual/social gameplaying of his own Sitcom. Luchini has some typically mordant lines, which he pronounces with relish, and the film is very funny, even delivering on the intra-textual promise of an ending which is both unexpected and inevitable.
(Dans la maison)
Country: FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
A teacher of French in a lycée encourages the writing talent of a socially deprived pupil, who has ingratiated himself with the family of a classmate by helping with his maths. However, there is a tension between his attempts to discourage the student's increasingly invasive critique of the family's petit-bourgeois existence, for literature's sake, and his own unhealthy curiosity born of intellectual snobbery and innate superiority.
Review:
At times reminiscent of a gallic Woody Allen film, particularly in the wife's modern art exhibits, and the scenes where Luchini presents himself inside the student's visualized written extracts, Ozon's literary jeu d'esprit at least wears its borrowings lightly (Leconte, Blier, Ruiz have all been here in differing ways) and recalls the sexual/social gameplaying of his own Sitcom. Luchini has some typically mordant lines, which he pronounces with relish, and the film is very funny, even delivering on the intra-textual promise of an ending which is both unexpected and inevitable.
(Dans la maison)
Country: FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
A teacher of French in a lycée encourages the writing talent of a socially deprived pupil, who has ingratiated himself with the family of a classmate by helping with his maths. However, there is a tension between his attempts to discourage the student's increasingly invasive critique of the family's petit-bourgeois existence, for literature's sake, and his own unhealthy curiosity born of intellectual snobbery and innate superiority.
Review:
At times reminiscent of a gallic Woody Allen film, particularly in the wife's modern art exhibits, and the scenes where Luchini presents himself inside the student's visualized written extracts, Ozon's literary jeu d'esprit at least wears its borrowings lightly (Leconte, Blier, Ruiz have all been here in differing ways) and recalls the sexual/social gameplaying of his own Sitcom. Luchini has some typically mordant lines, which he pronounces with relish, and the film is very funny, even delivering on the intra-textual promise of an ending which is both unexpected and inevitable.