Private Property

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Private Property

2007,

1h 32m,

Drama

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76%

33 Reviews

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65%

500+ Ratings

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76%

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33 Reviews

65%

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500+ Ratings

Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) leads a lonely life with her adult sons François (Yannick Rénier) and Thierry (Jérémie Renier) at a rural estate subsidized by her ex-husband's alimony payments. When Pascale falls for neighbor Jan (Kris Cuppens), she makes plans to move in with him. But Pascale's twin sons -- loafers who treat her like a servant and refuse to accept the responsibilities of adulthood -- won't let her go. The family remains locked in a stalemate until someone makes a startling move.

Critics Consensus

Private Property overcomes its slow pace with tight direction from Joachim Lafosse and an intriguing performance from Isabelle Huppert.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Apr 18, 2008

2/5

Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse.

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James Christopher

The Times (UK)

Apr 18, 2008

2/5

Brilliantly acted but oppressively dour.

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Jamie Russell

BBC.com

Apr 18, 2008

4/5

Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour.

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Oct 18, 2008

3/5

Steve Watson

Film4

Apr 18, 2008

3/5

Ingeniously uncomfortable but occasionally too opaque, Private Property is a darkly inventive family drama.

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Mar 24, 2019

What prevails is some sort of sentiment, related to the complexity of family relationships, but the narrative behind that sentiment is rather incomplete. The story does not allow us to fully understand the reasons for those sentiments or to predict what the future reserves for the characters. The acting is very convincing, but yet again so much in the characters is left underdeveloped. The end is abrupt and itself also obscure and vague. All in all, we experience fragments of a life of a family, without much possibility of assembling a coherent and consistent narrative. Of note, the first two thirds of the movies, surely are a more pleasant experience, than the remaining one third, which seems hasty.

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Pascale

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Thierry

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Jan

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Synopsis

Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) leads a lonely life with her adult sons François (Yannick Rénier) and Thierry (Jérémie Renier) at a rural estate subsidized by her ex-husband's alimony payments. When Pascale falls for neighbor Jan (Kris Cuppens), she makes plans to move in with him. But Pascale's twin sons -- loafers who treat her like a servant and refuse to accept the responsibilities of adulthood -- won't let her go. The family remains locked in a stalemate until someone makes a startling move.

Director: Joachim Lafosse
Screenwriter: Joachim Lafosse, Francois Pirot
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): May 18, 2007, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $62.9K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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