Lar doce lar (Home) a french movie by Ursula Meier !

                        

Português

Uma casa não é só uma casa. Ela pode ser a história de uma vida, ou de muitas gerações. Abrigar tradições de antepassados remotos, resumir um estilo de vida, servir de porto seguro para quem se assusta com a ventania. E mesmo que uma certa família francesa more em determinada casa há “apenas” 10 anos, este local tem o apelo suficiente para transformá-los radicalmente quando a loucura vem bater à porta. Carregado de humor, de profundidade e de questionamentos que roçam distintas áreas do conhecimento, Home, dirigido por Ursula Meier, ressalta mais uma vez a qualidade do cinema francês. Com um trabalho excepcional de seu elenco, este filme não precisa ir muito além de uma casa para falar sobre questões como liberdade, felicidade, família, loucura, “embrutecimento”, as “invasões bárbaras”, a utilidade e o impacto de “obras relevantes”, o contraste entre distintos modos de vida, entre outros assuntos. http://moviesense.wordpress.com/

English
What started out as a tale of a loving and happy family, so close they took naked baths together, turns into an ordeal, a struggle to hold onto a cherished way of life. Living on the side of an unused freeway, the family has ripped of the guardrails and enjoys free reign there, surrounded by the country. They play hockey in the middle of the road and traverse it to get to and from work and school. This has gone on for 10 years until, with little notice, the freeway is opened for use immediately destroying their way of life.

The father, mother, two teenage daughters and young son have an idyllic life. Pops is working on building a pool, the eldest daughter suns in the yard, Mom enjoys staying at home and taking care of the house and to top it all off, fields stretch off into the distant horizon in every direction completing this perfect picture. And I'm happy to say that idea doesn't dissipate. At first the youngest are excited with the new traffic and the parents keep their spirits up. But things continue down hill, the family stoically refusing to move and we watch as the cracks widen.

Complete with a great soundtrack comprised of some Jazz, Nina Simone, and other whimsical treasures, this is probably one of the most original films I've seen in years. As the family's calamity grows from annoyance to distress, they react in a diametrically opposed way producing something that felt almost like an old school post apocalyptic Twilight Zone.