Home wins at Montreal and Angoulême
On August 31, the jury of the 1st Angoulême Francophone Film Festival awarded Best Swiss Feature Film Home [+see also:
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The film – which premiered at the Cannes International Critics’ Week (see news) and is the second feature by Swiss-French helmer Ursula Meier – closed the 32nd Montreal World Film Festival, where Isabelle Huppert received a special Grand Prix of the Americas for her exceptional contribution to the art of cinema, and soon leaves for the Namur and Tokyo festivals.
The companies Box Productions (CH), Need Productions (BE) and Archipel 35 (FR) have co-produced this ambitious auteur film, which is opening on October 15 in French-speaking Switzerland and two weeks later in French theatres. The film follows the ups-and-downs of a nuclear family suddenly weakened by the opening up of a motorway in front of their house after years of disuse.
(Translated from French)
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