Dans la maison 2012

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The dexterity of the actors and their director is not quite enough, and as "In the House" accelerates, it also starts to sputter, piling on incidents and revelations that cause its web of implications to unravel. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The heat turns chilly before it ends, but for the most part, Francois Ozon is back in the catbird seat with In the House. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A celebration of storytelling's power. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: With its complex look at storytelling, imagination and the teacher-student dynamic, In the House is an elaborate cinematic fresco. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's fiction about life that becomes fiction that might be life - and the viewer happily dives in. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: In The House bares the voyeurism inherent in all stories-and the class-consciousness inherent in voyeurism. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: [A] slyly warped student-and-teacher yarn. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The expected punch line... never materializes, so I guess this must be a drama after all. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Ozon and the script move a little too far afield and hold on a bit too long as the film approaches its end. Still, "In the House" has enough trippy truth to it to grab your interest and shake your mind. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: With its wheels-within-wheels structure and ubiquitous jibber-jabber between neophyte and guide "In the House" is something of a lit major's "Inception." Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The final scene is so open-ended that like Germain, you won't want the story to end. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Savor In the House for its meta-exploration of adolescence, class resentment and suppressed desire, but don't expect much more. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: The film treats imagination-and talent-in certain hands as an almost mystical force. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Ozon is an artful provocateur and observer of human nature. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The result is endlessly playful, although the rules of the game, in Ozon's hands, could hardly be graver, and what can be at stake, in the act of storytelling, has seldom been more elegantly sketched. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Mostly, the film's a confident, very sophisticated meditation on art - on why we need it, how we identify with it and what it gives our lives. And what it can't replace. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: Ozon keeps sliding between genres ("Now we are in bad farce," scolds the teacher) to explore what really interests him - the creative process itself. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Neither Claude nor Ozon comes up with a satisfying finish to this intriguing setup. But because they're both so committed to seducing their audience, it's a lot of fun watching them try. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: 'In the House" promises to be a social satire with a flash of Hitchcockian menace, but gradually it turns into a routine thumb-sucker on reality versus fiction. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: In the House is a tour de force about two yarn-spinners -- Claude and Germain -- whose lives devolve into chaos. Read more

Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: "In the House" might well be called "In the Story" because that's where it plays out: the house in the story and the story in the house. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The seductions of storytelling drive "In the House," a cleverly structured comic thriller rich with narrative trickery and macabre humor. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Darkly funny and utterly compelling, it's arguably the best teacher-student movie since 1999's Election. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: A witty, naughty, insight-packed provocation which never takes its seriousness too seriously. Read more

Eric Hynes, Time Out: Luchini's dependable deadpan goes a long way toward making the puzzle pieces snap pleasingly into place, but as with most such endeavors, In the House is about its own construction and nothing more. Read more

Zachary Wigon, Village Voice: In the House creates something far more original than the same old heart-pounding exercise. Read more