Miguel Neto 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

OJT 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!

George Wright Francois Ozon is the director of this provocative and unusual film that takes the viewer inside the minds of the characters. It is not a traditional movie with a beginning and an end but a study of a period in the lives of different people. In this movie, a high school student named Claude catches the attention of his teacher named Germain, through an essay that explores the family of another student, named Raffa. Claude has begun to tutor Raffa in mathematics. At first the teacher, as the student's mentor, is hesitant about the breach of privacy with this series of essays but succumbs to the the temptation to become a voyeur. Each essay ends with the notation...To Be Continued. Both student and teacher are seen as outsiders in their own worlds and are strangely attracted to the family. The student gently mocks the family he is observing as dull and middle class. The teacher can understand this estrangement from their world because Claude is from a different world and the teacher himself is something of an outsider in his own world. He encourages the boy to continue his writing because he feels the boy has potential as a writer. As the movie goes along, we see the family of Raffa behaving as many other families pursuing money and status. The boy and his father are both named Raffa so they become the Raffas (plural). The student has a romantic interest in the mother, who seems to be the real reason he wants to explore the home. The desire for sexual encounters is present throughout the movie and seems to come out in a few surprising and light hearted episodes. We also see how Raffa and Claude interact with their teacher and the other students and their own families. The wives of Germain the teacher and Raffa Sr. are also interesting with one a traditional woman handling the domestic lives of the two Raffas. Meanwhile, Germain's wife manages an art gallery for two wealthy sisters, who she is trying to keep happy by making the gallery profitable. The movie is an interesting view of modern angst with the pressures to conform competing with the desire to be independent and on occasion, straying from the accepted standards. All in all, it is a provocative look at the different lives of people who interact and occasionally come into conflict. At the end, we see the message: to be continued.

Ken-241-911501 Without getting as wordy as some and giving away a bunch of plot details and quirky turns... How often do you see a flick and before it's even over tell yourself you absolutely must see it again? I've already seen In The House twice and can't wait to see it again, because I just figured out the major trick (rather a mindf--k) of it...and I'm not telling. The person I first saw it with agreed he had to see it again, too, and the person with whom I just saw it (May 22, 2013 in San Francisco) said she needed to buy the DVD as soon as it came out, so she could keep on showing it to more people and get into discussions about it. Not only that, the couple sitting in front of us were knocked out by it...and actually the guy had already seen it and had to see it again, so he brought a lady friend, who right after the film ended said, "OMG! I have to see this again!" And trust me, so will you. Now let's hope the U.S. doesn't decide they have to make an American version and totally wreck it, like they did with the excellent Danish film, Brothers (Brødre, 2004) with that godawful U.S. thing released in 2009. Leave it alone, please.