So, Francois Ozon has finally come up with another watchable film. Not perhaps so out-and-out entertaining as 8 Women, nor does it have the delectable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi to take your mind of the pretentiousness and preciousness that is Ozon's stock-in-trade but it does have a plot that a Spanish playwright may or may not have 'borrowed' from Muriel Spark and Fabrice Luchini, arguably more a man of the theatre than cinema but who invariably turns in something worth watching albeit quirky and on top of this it has Kristin Scott Thomas in a role she could phone in had she less integrity. The basic premise is just about enough off-the-wall to draw you in although the inexorability content is just a tad too Greek not to smack of pretentiousness. Certainly worth a look.
Review of In the House
