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

MartinHafer "In the House" is an odd and creepy film. It's also very difficult to predict and understand. I noticed that a lot of the reviewers here liked it--just was just left a bit cold.When the film begins, Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is an older school teacher who seems a bit burned out by his job. However, one of his students has piqued his interest. Claude (Ernst Umhauer) is writing essays about his weekends that are FAR different from the boring and brief ones from his classmates. And, he also writes about the family of one of his classmates--almost like a detached observer watching them and writing about them. It becomes highly inappropriate after a while, as it's clearly violating the family's privacy. But it gets worse--Claude tells his teacher that he doesn't have time to write more--so the teacher steals a math test from another teacher and the boy agrees to keep writing! Huh?! It goes on and on from there and much of it is real and much isn't--and it's often very, very difficult to tell which you are seeing. Some of it is even creepier because it shows a teenage boy making out with a 35-40 year-old lady--and I sure felt uncomfortable with their passionate kissing.So is this worth seeing? For me, not really. I love some of the acting and actors but the film goes in many directions but never seems to zero in on any one thing. It's creepy but not completely. It seems at first like a dark comedy...but isn't. What is it? I dunno.

CarolAHall This film is a Chinese box. Reality inside fiction. Fiction inside fantasy. Fantasy inside wish. A story nested inside many others, all "In the House". A boy writes for his frustrated teacher about his real life… supposedly. The teacher makes the boy a protégé, but critiques his story, which is the boy's real life… maybe. Soon the teacher, his wife, and the audience are caught up. Are we voyeurs to the boys real life, stalking real people, or just watching fictionalized people in a story? What happens when the watchers become characters in the story? When we see a scene with the boy's real father, is it true? Or just a form of escape? What I love is that I don't believe the boy is a real stalker, or voyeur, not really. He's a Houdini escape artist, using art and the mind to escape his real world, and create another. Its just it may… be very dangerous how he's doing it, because he's using his fantasy and the fantasies of others, to escape his own reality and using real lives to do so… sort of. So he's dangerous, but in your heart can you forgive him? Or are you being duped? He's a very clever kid. In a way he makes the lives of others more real to themselves, for which there are consequences. A middle class mother Esther, who the boy inappropriately woos, falls right back in using a child to escape her boring life. The teacher's wife Jeanne escapes her unreal life when the boy tells her a secret… maybe. The people in real lives that his fiction illuminates are changed forever. What I really respect about this film, is that the boy sees the people in the lives he wants, more clearly than they see themselves. They feel his clarity as an invasion, or criticism. But really it is a begrudging acceptance that no matter how stupid or vacuous their concerns, their lives hold the key to his escape. As an artist he needs to be able to describe his own real life. But he's too young for that, he needs his imagination to escape first. Then later, he can return… to somewhere, a home 'inside the house' where he is respected, cared for, wanted. First you have to imagine it possible. Reality is a burden if you can't escape it.

akash_sebastian Francois Ozon's latest film is almost like an irresistible novel which you never wanna put down. The different ways in which he develops the characters is quite fascinating to watch.Germain is a bored French professor who finds most of his students uninteresting or untalented. Then he becomes infatuated with a student's (Claude) essays, which are about a friend's family's life to which Claude has got a way into. Both their infatuations and fascinations make them take interesting actions which lead to almost disastrous consequences.The final scene makes you wonder whether you too, like Germain, get the same voyeuristic pleasure watching others' intimate lives unfold in front you.Ozon's movies have some some sort of charm which always keep you hooked till the end. I remember enjoying his last movie, Potiche; but unlike his last movie, this one is quite thought-provoking and gives various dimensions to character-development.