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It stars the estimable Isabelle Huppert as a divorced woman living in a nice country house with her two grown-up sons (Jérémie and Yannick Renier). Her sons mock her, her ex-husband, now remarried, still quarrels with her and only when her neighbour becomes her lover does she decide to do something about her life and sell the house.

This infuriates the boys, one of whom is less of an idle sod than the other, because they thought dad was going to leave the building to them. And slowly but surely things reach a point of no return.

Huppert is an actress who can manage a five-minute take by sheer command of the medium, and her performance makes the whole story come alive. But Lafosse, too, deserves some credit for the quality of his observation of these ordinary but complex people.

Private Property (Nue Propriete)
Cert: 15