According to Ozon, obsession tends to go hand in hand with delusion—which is why it lends itself so well to cinema.

| Jun 13, 2024

Kristin Scott Thomas may very well offer the film's most rewarding performance as she's both dramatically involving and often quite funny.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

If there's any major complaint about this otherwise artful affair, it's that the narrative arc and lasting implications feel quite fleeting. But nevertheless, Ozon's output is nothing short of entertaining.

| Aug 5, 2019

Ozon cloaks the scenes with Claude & Rapha's family in heavy suspense (complete with tinkly thriller music) so you never know if what the Germains are reading is true or not.

| Mar 2, 2019

Ozon's latest puzzle is certainly sharp as a tack, but lacks the dénouement to compete with its extremely watchable exposition et tournant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2019

An unconvincing, sub-Almodóvarian twist on fantasy projection, sexual awakening, and the unreliability of storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 16, 2018

Sophisticated and shrewdly observational, In The House is Ozon's underlying slick and buoyant social commentary of what feeds us internally for artistic inspiration. Sedate and oddly witty...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2018

In the House is a tour de force about two yarn-spinners -- Claude and Germain -- whose lives devolve into chaos.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 3, 2014

This is an impressive film, even though it seems like a kind of psychological-dramatic experiment. It combines fantasy and reality in interesting ways, depicting imaginary events and realistic events with equal conviction.

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2013

Satirizes the process of aesthetic creation and the damage it can inflict on the artist and those around him.

| Nov 4, 2013

In the House is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.

| Original Score: 2 | Sep 16, 2013

Narrative issues hold In the House back from being as great as it should be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2013

The convoluted yet familiar narrative games become somewhat tiresome. The movie works best as a straight suspense drama about a frustrated teacher and his devious star pupil...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2013

The result is one of those stories about storytelling that have become something of a post-modern specialty of elevated art. Ozon manages a light touch, however, so that Dans La Maison never feels too self-referential.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2013

As a black comedy, this never quite catches fire, though there is some mild amusement to be found in its social satire.

| Jul 23, 2013

Has the slow-pulsing vertigo of a psychological thriller & the twists of an elaborate melodrama, but to reduce it to these labels is glib. Caustic & funny but never misanthropic. A study of the ways people actually live, rather than how we assume they do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2013

These characters are messed up and yet there I was, sitting in the back row of the cinema, with a smile on my face.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 1, 2013

A cinematic bouquet of surprising left turns and addictive story hooks. Strongly recommended.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 28, 2013

Provocative, playful, entertaining and audacious, In the House is a writer showing us the inner workings of writing, complete with its power to subvert, to imagine and to deceive

| Jun 22, 2013

Occasionally too clever for its own good, the film may go one step too far, but Ozon manages the hybrid of genres beautifully and ultimately it is his superb cast that sells the nuances and the concept

| Jun 22, 2013