Home, starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet is about a family living on the side of an abandoned motorway. A road movie in reverse, Home charts what happens to them when their lives progress from normal and fun to strange and absurd.
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Comedy satire from director Ursula Meier in which a new motorway brings chaos to a family's life. Living in the tranquillity of the French countryside, life is sweet for Marthe (Isabelle Huppert), her husband Michel (Olivier Gourmet), and their three children. However, when work continues on the completion of a new motorway begun years before, and since pushed to the back of their minds, their perfect idyll is soon turned into their worst nightmare, as the torrent of decibels and exhaust fumes drive the family's stress levels to breaking point.
An entire household is caught in traffic thanks to the opening of a new super-highway in this satiric comedy drama from Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and her husband (Olivier Gourmet) live in a small home in rural France with their three children The family values their peace and quiet except for oldest daughter Judith (Adelaide Leroux) who has a fondness for cranking heavy metal music as she relaxes in her lawn chair While construction on a highway near the house began years ago the progress has been so slow that Marthe and her family have all but forgotten about it But once the road is opened they're suddenly subjected to a nonstop barrage of noise exhaust and all the stress that comes with it and the relative calm of the household decays into chaos as Marthe is driven to a nervous breakdown HOME was screened as part of the Critics' Week programme at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
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