Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Brilliantly acted but oppressively dour.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Ingeniously uncomfortable but occasionally too opaque, Private Property is a darkly inventive family drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Thanks to the acuity of their performances, the old adage "You always hurt the ones you love" rings new and true.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Huppert is superb, her lonely heroine both sympathetically vulnerable and yet also slightly culpable for her sons' terribly selfish behaviour.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Save the effort by asking the neighbours if you can come round for ten minutes every night for a week. A wet week. Before pay day.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2008

There's not a wasted word and the performances are impressive in Joachim Lafosse's hugely impressive film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2008

Once again Europe shows Hollywood how to put together a funny, sexy, scary, thought-provoking drama and pack it into 90 intense minutes

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 8, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2007

The effect of all this acting out is less erotic than helplessly childish.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2007

Lafosse gives it an arbitrary rest without clearing up a few mysteries, which unfortunately means he doesn't have to acknowledge or deal with them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2007

An impeccably acted character drama revolving around a mother and her teenage twin sons, Private Property shows how strong and how terrifying the bonds within families can be.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 31, 2007

It wouldn't be accurate to call Private Property a thriller, but it has a slow-burning intensity that's oddly suspenseful, and it shifts gears effectively once the tense family dynamic suddenly changes.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 27, 2007

What draws us into "Private Property" is how so many things happen under the surface, never commented upon. At any given moment, we cannot say for sure what the characters fully feel, since they often act at right angles to their emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

[Director] Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2007

French actress Isabelle Huppert has made a career out of playing women on the verge of ... something. Suicide, nervous breakdowns, disastrous affairs -- you name it, Huppert's characters have had it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2007