Film Screening : Home (2008) If you've got a smidge of French skills, you are in for a treat! Engage in dynamic movie discussions with Marie from Learnfrenchwithmissmarie.com, who will make sure you pick up new words and phrases along the way!
Ursula Meier’s Home (2008) is a quietly unsettling, darkly humorous portrait of a family whose peaceful life is disrupted by an unexpected change in their environment. The motorway near their home gets finished, and become in use.
In the middle of a calm and barren countryside an empty two-lane highway stretches as far as the eye can see. It hasn't been used since it was built a few years ago and has been left to to decay. Right beside the asphalt invaded by weeds, only a few feet from the security barriers, a house and a little garden stand. In this house lives a family. It's the beginning of summer and road works start up again. The highway is going to be put to use. The film shows how resourcefully this family adapts.
What's in it for you ?
Home unfolds with a quiet, hypnotic power — a film that begins simply but grows into a rich metaphor about pollution, infrastructure, and the systems that press in on our lives in ways we barely notice. It invites you to reflect on how we adapt, resist, and make sense of pressures that creep into our everyday spaces. Isabelle Huppert brings a magnetic, deeply human presence to the story, grounding its strangeness with warmth and vulnerability. It’s a film that stays with you not because of spectacle, but because of the questions it plants — subtle, unsettling, and beautifully crafted
Do stay to have a discussion about the film after the screening!
Drinks & Crepes will be available at the venue !
