In the House

A clever and enjoyable exercise for Ozon, but nothing really special. It's like a mystery story that's constantly poking you in the ribs to make sure you got its cute formal and structural tricks. Whatever.

An ingeniously intricate story about the constructive and destructive power of the imagination, successfully weaving both fact and fiction together to darkly comic effect.

Clever movie, maybe a bit too much... Sous Le Sable is still my favorite Ozon by far.

an ozon film for sure, with all the expected metatextual trickery and REAR WINDOW-riffage, demonstrating a strong conceptual understanding of the voyeuristic titillation on which creator-subject-consumer relationships are built. it's so much fun for a while, but he's never capable of investing the characters with enough plausibility to accrue a real sense of danger, eroticism or anxiety, and the thing loses steam by the moment, arriving at a glib and self-congratulatory conclusion.

I should have given more credit to Ozon's flexibility. While this is more mainstream friendly then the usual Ozon, it's masterfully delivered. I don't see why some reviews condemn the meta layers, they're pretty organic.

This movie was so god damned interesting, I can't even process it. Honestly, the direction, acting, and the writing were all pretty incredible. Basically, I just want to meet Ozon so I can give him one huge pat on the back. This movie thoroughly impressed me and I cannot wait to watch it again.

brilliant script! this was like a fine double scotch with the selected blends of woody allen, roman polanski and haneke all together. very good.

It's a smart film, but definitively too long. The acting duo of Menochet and Seigner is tops. Overall, if you don't have too strong an allergy to pretentious French wankers, it's worth a watch.

Kind of promising at the beginning, it doesn't really get anywhere. It feels like a thriller sometime but it's not one. It certainly doesn't have an ambition to represent a young writer finding his voice, either. The ending... well, there is none, if you want my opinion. All this said, it's totally engrossing thanks to the direction and performances, but as forgettable as a pedestrian blockbuster. This is basically junk cinema for the educated audience.

The too-big contradiction between the gorgeousness of the main character and the lack of everything else made me feel really empty.

Que va-t-il se passer?, a question I kept asking myself repeatedly over the course of this endlessly involving thriller. The script is excellent, as is the cast, and the occasional jabs at the world of contemporary art are fittingly hilarious. Definitely worth a watch.

Loved this! Ozon imbues a simple story with a Hitchcockian amount of tension, lending the film an incredible amount of gravitas as it navigates the pursuit for truth within art. I think I will be analyzing this one for a long time.

Enjoyed it for the most part (I just vibe to Ozon's wavelength, pretty much no matter what he's doing) but didn't engage as thoroughly with the post-modern flourishes as I usually do. It's more fun when it's subtext you have to figure out for yourself, not this wink-nudge textual trickery. The second half verges on boring.

Ozon reaches his brilliant best again with this disarmingly simple story about a student's writings, which explodes out of all proportion into a weaving psychological thriller that explores the deepest of human fears. It's well acted with realistic, relatable characters, while the intricate back-and-forth of the script keeps the viewer engrossed, waiting for the next chapter. One of the best recent French dramas.

felt like it should've ended sooner, with a bigger question left unanswered - something that the film does all throughout but with smaller questions... as it is, the finale ended up being the safest and thus least appetizing choice. the wholeness of it is pretty good, though.

The first two thirds of this are incredible, but then it becomes bizarrely self-referential with the constant commentary that the plot has lost its way with a hasty ending slapped on.

Only in French, one might be able to express how ridiculous this film is actually is.

Clever and enjoyable story about stories.

a beautiful lecture on literature...lovely script that has so many layers..It feels like reading a great Paul Auster novel

Very interesting take on storytelling, bending the truth and molding the truth and the line between the two and also an intriguing thriller that always moves forward.

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Ögrenci, ögretmen, edebiyat, ödev, öykü-roman yazmak, aile, ev, arkadaslik, ders calistirmak, evli kadin-genç delikanli, basketbol, sanat galerisi (Edebiyat ödevinde arkadasi Rapha'nin aile yasantisini anlatan Claude'nin yazisi ögretmenin ilgisini çeker. Ögretmen ögrenci ile ilgilenmeye baslar. Ögrenci hikayeye devam eder. Bu arada ailenin iyice içine girer.) Oldukça Sürükleyici.

Aşırı, fena değil, severiz.

An exercise in the creative process and voyeurism. Kept me interested till the end.

Zaten içi Musil'den Kafka'ya, Pasolini'den Flaubert'e edebiyat göndermeleriyle dolu olan film, gerçek anlamda çok katmanlı, iyi bir gerilim romanı okuyormuş hissi uyandırıyor. "Kumun Altında"yı henüz görmedim ama, gördüklerim içinde en iyi Ozon filmi diyebilirim.

Maybe the best and most interesting movie by Ozon. A feast for the eyes and ears.

Multi layered and thought provoking but overall quite long winded, very wordy and slightly strange.

Ultimately it amounts to less than the sum of it's clever, meta-fictive devices, but for the most part Ozon gets away with it. Of course it helps that i just have a soft-spot for this sort of meta-fictive trickery when it's done right, which for the most part it is here. It also doesn't hurt that i enjoyed 8 Women so much, so i'm giving Ozon the benefit of the doubt on this one. At times it sort of reminded me of Almodovar or Egoyan at their most convoluted and plotty. Maybe not deep, but fun.

Lower tier Ozon, dependant on that most obnoxious of clichés where a writer character is writing something that corresponds with the movie's narrative. No one here is very involving, and staying interested was a struggle.

"kanepeyle aynı renkteki gözlerini kaldırıp bana bakıncaya kadar onu izledim. 'günaydın sen charles mısın?' ah o sesi yok mu! bu kadınlar konuşmayı nerede öğreniyorlar?"

1178: i like it !

Pretentios meta film with a long way to go from being as good as the thematically similar 'Swimming Pool'.

Wow. I think the most appropriate word to describe this movie is "interesting". It's so carefully constructed, there's so much to think about. It functions perfectly well as a common-or-garden reliable narrator thriller, but if you peel it apart there's a lot to ponder, on sexuality, privacy, and the nature of storytelling.

Constantly on the edge of being really interesting but it never truly gets there.

After seeing Ozon's "Frantz", I wanted to catch up with this one which got good reviews. Acting is solid: Luchini as a sort of French hybrid of Woody Allen & Larry David and Umhauer as his student. It was also nice to see Kristin Scott Thomas after a while and Seigner in a non-Polanski film. Ozon’s direction is controlled and the film flows nicely, but the end didn’t go as far as I had hoped - nor how I imagine the younger Ozon would have handled it. The last scene and shot are good though.

The story was page turner and the ending just didn't live up to the praise the teacher was giving it.