French school room psychological drama from writer-director François Ozon (Potiche, Swimming Pool), co-starring Kristin Scott Thomas and based on a Spanish play by...
French school room psychological drama from writer-director François Ozon (Potiche, Swimming Pool), co-starring Kristin Scott Thomas and based on a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga. Best Film winner at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
A reclusive sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Inspired by the talent presented by this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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88 %83 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
84 %5,635 reviewsAudience score rating
"My high-school English teacher saw my literary quirks as something that needed to be nurtured, not amended – his intrigue into my characteristic idiosyncrasies being remarkably similar to those portrayed in Francois Ozon’s In the House. However, my teacher wasn’t a crotchety has-been/never-was and I certainly didn’t have any vivid desire to bang my best mate’s mum. Then again, that’s what makes this film so damn entertaining."
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Flicks
Flicks"Low-key thriller feels like a return to form for Ozon."
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Variety
Variety"Utterly assured, breathtakingly executed and riotously funny, this is a delight."
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Total Film
Total Film"Luchini's dependable deadpan goes a long way toward making the puzzle pieces snap pleasingly into place, but as with most such endeavors, In the House is about its own construction and nothing more."
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Time Out
Time Out"As In the House accelerates, it also starts to sputter, piling on incidents and revelations that cause its web of implications to unravel."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A black-comic psychological drama with poise and self-possession."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"With typically dark playfulness, Francois Ozon considers the student-teacher relationship and the uses of fiction as a key to accessing other lives."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Ozon weaves another spellbinding tale that mingles the real and imaginery with terrific effect."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineIn the House | Details
- Runtime
- 105
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France
