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An action-packed slog

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

I'm the one of those who think that any movie, despite it's message or sense or purpose, shouldn't be boring. And this one is so boring. Is it for old people? Over 80? It's partly comedy, no way! There's nothing funny inside. Thriller? Be serious! This is slow...hmm....drama. I don't know what's so dramatic in this movie. There's no reason for existence of such a movie. If You don't know what to do in next 2 hours, go to sleep or watch Your flowers growing, You'll spend better amount of time than watching this rubbish. Even acting, despite respectable crew, is nothing special. Nothing in this movie should attract attention. It's simply boring. Period.

In the House is proof that French films are very interesting , the script is very good , the plot keeps you glued to the TV the whole movie , the cast is quite competent , Fabrice Luchini makes an excellent performance , Ernst Umhauer , Kristin Scott Thomas Emmanuelle Seigner are all well , has some well medians performances , the direction of François Ozon is very good, the French director is very experienced , the pace worked for me , more can be tiring for those who do not much like the style of the film, photography is beautiful , the topics covered in the film is very well done , obvious that the movie is far from perfect, I found the short film than you should, should have about 20 more minutes to develop even better the plot, and also develop the characters , some are quite bland, in the House is a very good film , has a good plot, good actors and good direction of François Ozon . Note 8.7

I think of Francois Ozon as a French version of Michael Winterbottom: a director interested in making a very diverse catalogue of films, more successful in some genres than in others, but no two of his movies are ever quite the same. 'In the House' tells the story of a teacher who encourages a pupil with a knack for storytelling, choosing to ignore (or even to encourage) the way the pupil is experimenting with life in order to find material for his tale. The twists revolve around the extent to which the teacher himself may also be present within the story. The conceit isn't a bad one, but the film has to work implausibly hard to bring it off: while the teacher and his wife are believable, I didn't find the pupil to be. Always he is writing of "normal life", as if to contrast with his own; but the film tells us nothing of what his own life actually is (except as a game-player extraordinaire). The ending is skillfully executed but overall, it's a little heavy-handed.

A bored teacher. Despondent. A search for the fountain of youth. ( Oh! How it's dreadful growing old! If I only could stay forever young, in all the splendour of my 15, 16 years... ). Alás, now suddenly arises everything I would like to be. And how this appeared? Through myself? No... Through my wife, Jeanne, an intellectual like myself. accomplice of all my successes and all my failures. an open dialogue, for better or worse. A boy, yet, Claude Garcia who challenges me. I, who always thought of myself as being the best, now in my mature years I can read between the lines, in all my conversations with any person, a little bit of their personality. How I acquired this ability? It came from all the literature I have absorbed over the years. This would surely be Germain's thought, if we were given the power to enter his mind. With this movie, François Ozon gives us a present: It is the old story of the sphinx: decipher me or be devoured. The sphinx: François Ozon... who is about to be devoured? We, The spectators. In the purpose of what I have just written: remember the scene in which Claude just made love with Jeanne? The way he faces sideways the camera? Traces of a smile, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's La Gioconda... "enigmatic"... (Is it really a smile or isn't? Is she shy or is she a challenge?) The movie is almost a reality show, many things are left to the imagination of the ones who appreciate this genre. Germain is a voyeur, though he might not know it, or perhaps he knows but denies it to his wife and even to himself, voyeur still, nevertheless. Claude Garcia realises this since his first talk with the "master". Henceforth, he unravels a plot which the ending he already knows. And it is so clever that makes with Germain thinks that HE is the one who directs the plotting. To finalize: impeccable masterpiece for all those who go to the movies in search for more than just a fun and amusing blockbuster. In a scale of 1 to 10, I give this movie: 10 (masterpiece).