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

What a blast it is when you are drawn into a film right from the start, and it keeps sucking you into the story. I've seen several of the productive Francois Ozon's former films, including "Swimmingpool" and "Le temps qui reste", which I regard as the best. Until this, that is!Dans la maison (In the house) is built up as a thriller, but is really a drama with comic touch. It's a mind bender. The story is loosely based upon the Spanish stage play "El chico de la ultimate fila" by Juan Mayorga. A good casted crew of actors, and a quite advanced story telling rhythm, as well as surprising twigs both in narration as well as in the story. Photography is beautiful and quite inventive, mixing camera angles as the story telling is focusing on the details in the story. The film is much like reading a book, while getting interrupted, but interrupted by things you don't mind!A teacher in French, the native language, starts off a new school year, and gets an interesting pupil, Claude, which starts writing an essay of how he spies on his "best friend's" family. The story continues, though the teacher is having a love/hate relationship to the project as a whole. He dislikes the content of the story, but are intrigued, both by the writing talent as well as the storytelling. The teacher wants an intrigue, and gets more than he bargained for. A dangerous game starts with the invasion of the family... Is the teacher leading the student, or is the student leading the teacher? Is this fantasy, or for real?It's an interesting film in many ways, a meta story which is very artistically told, with tension, and lots of ways to go. The intriguing storytelling, the surprises, the tension, all gives a reason for discussion as well as confusing you about the theme of the film.Fabrice Luchini is playing the main role as teacher flawlessly, and Kirsten Scott Thomas balances we'll as his wife. Ernst Umhauer is excellent as Pupil Claude. He is cute and innocent, as well as creepy and down right scary, but believable in his 16 year old curiosity. Sharp, but also daring and playful. A pure talent, well instructed. Emanuel's Seigner as the watched mother, Denis Menichet as the father... They all are brilliant.I enjoyed this immensely, both because it's different, artful, funny, poetic, pulp, playful and gives you many thoughts of ethics. Watch out fir the film auteur Ozon. He is getting better and better in what he does. Wonder who is his teacher... I see many inspirations, among them Hitchcock and Rear Window, but I'll leave up to you to think about the rest... Marvelous film making!

The story is based on the play 'The boy in the last row' and a well crafted French drama centers between teacher and student relationship.The story begins like a serious drama, when character developments reach at a certain stage the peculiar way of story telling starts to dig deeper into the existing characters which puts us to curiosity about the next scenes. This was kinda unusual theme like 'Stranger than fiction' and 'Ruby sparks'. The story has the power to control over the audience, which sometime drags between reality and fiction as its layers and sub-plots. You can't just judge the story especially the end but you have to experience yourself by watching it till end. The twist was really a nice one, it made the movie completely. I liked the scene at the end when they both sit on a chair and looks at a small flats from outside and say their own version stories.The movie was suspenseful but comedy, especially when the character Germain pop-out as a narrator or guidance during the story flow of a student and his affair. The actual story of the movie was a teacher finds out one of his student's caliber in writing. So he offers him guidance to improve his talent which later the student submits a series of essay papers. When the story written by his student brings complication to around them there is no other way to solve it. Before to giving up on it is reached at its highest point to blow on everything out.As the story was loosely based on the house, the title was perfect. The unique way of story telling and the interesting characters made the movie rich and spicy. One of a best French drama of the year, in fact very clever, must appreciate the writer Juan Mayorga and the director Ozon. Definitely not to be missed suppose you are a movie fanatic.

Francois Ozon's latest film is almost like an irresistible novel which you never wanna put down. The different ways in which he develops the characters is quite fascinating to watch.Germain is a bored French professor who finds most of his students uninteresting or untalented. Then he becomes infatuated with a student's (Claude) essays, which are about a friend's family's life to which Claude has got a way into. Both their infatuations and fascinations make them take interesting actions which lead to almost disastrous consequences.The final scene makes you wonder whether you too, like Germain, get the same voyeuristic pleasure watching others' intimate lives unfold in front you.Ozon's movies have some some sort of charm which always keep you hooked till the end. I remember enjoying his last movie, Potiche; but unlike his last movie, this one is quite thought-provoking and gives various dimensions to character-development.