ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Home Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Ursula Meier, Country: Switzerland/France/Belgium, Release: 2008, Runtime: 95 "[A] dichotomy of humor and dark drama comes to define Meier's film, a subtle mix of emotional tones that is at once exhilarating and unnerving," writes Kazu Wanatabe in the filmlinc blog. Read the whole review>> An ordinary middle class family lives an ordinary life in their ordinary house that sits next to an unused highway. With no neighbors or cars for miles, they live a typical day-to-day existence. Michel (Olivier Gourmet) goes to work by getting into his car on the other side of the empty stretch of road that seems to lead nowhere. Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) maintains a calm household while her teenage daughter listens to music and suns herself next to the guardrails. Life is good — or at least average. But when the highway is suddenly opened and cars whizzing by become the norm, the family’s dynamic changes: dad’s stressed, mom’s freaking out, and things spiral out of control. Director Ursula Meier (Strong Shoulders, ND/NF 2003) keeps an even hand on the proceedings with just the right touches of farce and drama.

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