The film follows a quirky, close-knit family of five—led by Marthe () and Michel ( Olivier Gourmet ). For ten years, they have lived in blissful isolation alongside an unfinished, abandoned stretch of highway, using the empty asphalt as an extension of their living space for sunbathing, hockey, and inflatable pools.
Directed by Ursula Meier, the 2008 film is a striking surrealist drama that transforms a mundane family home into a psychological battlefield. The Plot: A Road Movie in Reverse Home.2008.(Isabelle Huppert).french.with.Englis...
Their idyllic "bubble" is shattered when the highway finally opens to traffic. Suddenly, thousands of cars roar past their front door day and night, bringing noise, pollution, and the prying eyes of strangers. As the outside world presses in, the family’s attempts to maintain their way of life—including a desperate, literal attempt to entomb themselves in the house to block out the noise—spirals into a claustrophobic nightmare. Home (2008) The film follows a quirky, close-knit family of