Three hours of people arguing about a dead guy's house. Somehow riveting.
Acting
Emmanuelle Béart and Jacques Weber verbally destroy each other.
Direction
Thiel's camera lets the theatrical staging breathe without gimmicks.
Writing
Rambert's dialogue builds like a pressure cooker with no release valve.
Director
Dominique Thiel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rambert is France's most exported living playwright; this 2017 original starred the same cast before Thiel filmed it.
The title refers to both the physical house and how these siblings constructed their own prisons through decades of resentment.
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