Home
Dir: Ursula Meier
2008
***
2008's Home is so frustrating. Ursula Meier just couldn't help herself, what starts as an interesting concept (family live in a small house next to an unused motorway) turns into a cliched French existential load of old nonsense. It's 2 steps forward and 1 step back all the way but to its credit it is beautifully filmed throughout with some of the most striking imagery I've seen in cinema in the last few years. The performances are also top notch, particularly from the ever dependable Isabelle Huppert. It's just such a shame that it becomes so predictable and typical, like its contemporaries that it is technically better than.