Today's film is Francois Ozon's "In the House" from 2012.
To be continued....This phrase is repeated many times throughout "In the House", a film very much about the art of storytelling itself. It conjures that feeling of wondering what happens to a character after the end credits roll, or when they are off screen? What happens behind closed doors or curtains?
At times it feels almost like one of those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. The film unfolds through reportage of events and fictional accounts of events, and the story winds up being somewhere in the middle.
The film is also about voyeurism, and the inherent voyeurism of cinema or any other storytelling, be it fiction or nonfiction. Ozon's screenplay is superb, based on the play "The Boy in the Back Row" by Juan Mayorga. It is gripping in it's nicely paced suspense and raises some interesting questions about art, and the morality of how far one should go for the sake of one's art.
The acting is solid all around, with Ernst Umhauer as the young student with the unusual imagination being especially good.
4 out of 5 stars
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