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“A bewitching dream of a film...sometimes eerie, at other times playful and witty, it explores themes of modernity and primitivism without ever being heavy-handed. And as a portrait of a family under siege, it’s as unsettling as it is sensual.”
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Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet enjoy the quiet life near an unused highway somewhere in Europe; all that changes when the route is reopened and a torrent of automobiles descends on the luckless couple. Ursula Meier directed this Swiss production.
“**** ~ A bewitching dream of a film...evoke[s] the tantalizing possibility of Jacques Tati making a movie based on the fiction of J.G. Ballard.” (London Telegraph)
“A bewitching dream of a film...sometimes eerie, at other times playful and witty, it explores themes of modernity and primitivism without ever being heavy-handed. And as a portrait of a family under siege, it’s as unsettling as it is sensual.” (Sukhdev Sandhu, Telegraph [U.K.])
“**** ~ A bewitching dream of a film...evoke[s] the tantalizing possibility of Jacques Tati making a movie based on the fiction of J.G. Ballard.” (London Telegraph)
“A bewitching dream of a film...sometimes eerie, at other times playful and witty, it explores themes of modernity and primitivism without ever being heavy-handed. And as a portrait of a family under siege, it’s as unsettling as it is sensual.” (Sukhdev Sandhu, Telegraph [U.K.])
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Runtime
98
Language
French
Director
Ursula Meier
Cast
Isabelle Huppert,
Olivier Gourmet
Played at
Monica Film Center 12.18.09 - 12.24.09
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