Home

A nightmarish metaphor for the modern world and car culture in particular, Home is one of the most quietly disturbing films you will see this year.

Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet from Mesrine) live an idyllic if somewhat eccentric life with their three children in a ramshackle house situated next to an unfinished stretch of motorway.

One day, however, a construction crew arrives to work on the road and before long the road is completed and open - and the family are cut off by the never-ending stream of traffic.

At times almost unbearably tense, Home is perhaps an extreme depiction of one of the downsides of modern life but anyone who has ever lived near a noisy road will undoubtedly empathise with the family’s plight.