2009 Home

Director: Kriv Stenders

Script: Antoine Jaccoud, Oliver Lorelle, Ursula Meier, Gilles Taurand, Raphaelle Valbrun

Producers: Denis Delcampe, Denis Freyd, Thierry Spicher, Elena Tatti

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Oliver Gourmet, Adelaide Lerour, Madeleine Budd

A family of happy slobs live a more or less idyllic life on the edge of a disused highway. they sunbathe, they use the roadway for hockey matches, they generally hangout. Until one day the trucks and bitumen arrive and the road is reborn as Route E57. All hell breaks loose as they fall prey to the neurosis that is modern life. Movement is channelled and restricted, noise and air become things to be feared, human interaction becomes an impersonal and hostile affair. Director Meier has called her debut feature a road movie in reverse. It offers Adelaide (where every year cinemas close down and parking garages open up) the severest form of provocation in suggesting that traffic is driving us mad. Isabelle Huppert is in fine form as the increasingly unhinged matriarch of this family who discover just how hard it is to be at home in the world these days.