Home (2008 film)
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Home is a 2008 Swiss drama film
directed by Ursula Meier
and starring Isabelle Huppert
. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards
.
Their younger daughter, Marion (Madeleine Budd), becomes obsessed about the quality and cleanliness of her surroundings. The elder daughter, Judith (Adélaïde Leroux), continues to lead her life of sunbathing out on the front lawn in her bikini, despite attracting unwanted attention from passing motorists. One day she decides to leave the house and doesn't return.
Meanwhile, the remaining family start to sound-proof their house by bricking themselves into the home. This includes blocking up all the windows and sealing all the ventilation points so no sound can get in. Confined in their own home, the pressure begins to take its toll on the family and they eventually leave their house.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm [Best Film] as well as...
and starring Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
. The film was the official Swiss submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards
82nd Academy Awards
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...
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Plot
Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a house next to an abandoned highway. They use the deserted road as an extension to their property. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road and the highway becomes open to traffic. Instead of leaving the house, the family continue to live there, despite the increased noise from the passing traffic.Their younger daughter, Marion (Madeleine Budd), becomes obsessed about the quality and cleanliness of her surroundings. The elder daughter, Judith (Adélaïde Leroux), continues to lead her life of sunbathing out on the front lawn in her bikini, despite attracting unwanted attention from passing motorists. One day she decides to leave the house and doesn't return.
Meanwhile, the remaining family start to sound-proof their house by bricking themselves into the home. This includes blocking up all the windows and sealing all the ventilation points so no sound can get in. Confined in their own home, the pressure begins to take its toll on the family and they eventually leave their house.
Cast
- Isabelle HuppertIsabelle HuppertIsabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
as Marthe - Olivier GourmetOlivier GourmetOlivier Gourmet is a Belgian actor. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Le Fils by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He also appeared in La Promesse, Rosetta and L'Enfant....
as Michel - Adélaïde Leroux as Judith
- Madeleine BuddMadeleine BuddMadeleine Budd is a French actress born in England on 29 April 1994.In April 2007, while she was a student at the Institut International de Lancy in Geneva, Switzerland, she began her acting career by taking the lead role in the short film Orloj, a 13-minute Swiss-Czech co-production directed by...
as Marion - Kacey Mottet Klein as Julien
Production
Director Ursula Meier searched for a suitable location across Europe, before finding a spot in Bulgaria. The road itself was already under construction and they then built the house next to the then-unused road. Meier wrote the script specifically for Isabelle Huppert before she was cast.Awards
| Festival | Category | Winner/Nominee | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bratislava International Film Festival International Film Festival Bratislava The International Film Festival Bratislava is an international film festival established in 1999 and held annually in Bratislava, Slovakia.... |
Grand Prix | Ursula Meier Ursula Meier Ursula Meier is a French-Swiss film director who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm [Best Film] as well as... |
No |
| César Award César Awards 2009 The 34th Annual César Awards ceremony was held by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to honor its selection of the best films of 2008 on February 27, 2009. Canal+ broadcast the event, which took place again at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France... |
Best Cinematography César Award for Best Cinematography The following are the winners of the annual César Award for Best Cinematography .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:... |
Agnès Godard Agnès Godard Agnès Godard is a César Award-winning French cinematographer. She is most famous for her long-running collaboration with filmmaker Claire Denis.-Biography, career and collaboration with Denis:... |
No |
| Best First Film César Award for Best Debut The César Award for Best Debut was an award given out at the annual César Awards between 1982 and 1999... |
Ursula Meier | No | |
| Best Production Design César Award for Best Production Design This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Production Design .-Winners and nominees:*1976: Pierre Guffroy: Que la fête commence*1977: Alexandre Trauner: Monsieur Klein... |
Ivan Niclass | No | |
| Flying Broom Women's Film Festival 13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival The 13th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival was a film festival held in Ankara, Turkey, which ran from May 6 to 13, 2010.This edition of the Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, which was founded in 1997 and is organized by Flying Broom with support from the Çankaya... |
FIPRESCI Award | Ursula Meier | Yes |
| Lumiere Awards | Best Technical Achievement | Agnès Godard | Yes |
| Mar del Plata Film Festival Mar del Plata Film Festival The Mar del Plata International Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina... |
Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert Isabelle Huppert Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most... |
Yes |
| ADF Cinematography Award | Agnès Godard | Yes | |
| Best Film | Ursula Meier | No | |
| Reykjavík International Film Festival Reykjavík International Film Festival - The festival :Reykjavík International Film Festival , is an international film festival held in Reykjavík, Iceland annually. The festival lasts 11 days each year and emphasizes young talents... |
FIPRESCI Award | Ursula Meier | Yes |
| Swiss Film Prize Swiss Film Prize The Swiss Film Prize is the national film award of Switzerland, first given out in 1998.* 1998 to 2008 : the Prize was given in during the Solothurn Film Festival.... |
Best Emerging Actor or Actress | Kacey Mottet Klein | Yes |
| Best Film | Ursula Meier | Yes | |
| Best Screenplay | Ursula Meier and Antoine Jaccoud | Yes |