Rent The House by the Sea (2017)
3.4 of 5 from 141 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
- By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela (Ariane Ascaride), an actress living in Paris, Joseph (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand (Gérard Meylan), the only one who stayed behind in the bay to run the family's small restaurant. It's time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father's ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
- Actors:
- Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Jacques Boudet, Anaïs Demoustier, Robinson Stévenin, Yann Trégouët, Geneviève Mnich, Fred Ulysse, Dioucounda Koma, Haylana Bechir, Ayoub Oaued, Giani Roux, Esther Seignon
- Directors:
- Robert Guédiguian
- Producers:
- Marc Bordure, Robert Guédiguian
- Writers:
- Robert Guédiguian, Serge Valletti
- Aka:
- La Villa
- Studio:
- New Wave Films
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (7) of The House by the Sea
No.... - The House by the Sea review by LA
"By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa" - so they say...stop right there. If you thought this would be an idyllic Mediterranean pastoral forget it. It's a bleak rocky port full of anti immigrant army vehicles, with a noisy railway viaduct right overhead and death or creepy octopi in the waters... plus one of the worst scripts ever encountered, and dreary unloving characters who literally poison themselves to escape from the story. No.
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Not feel-good French fare - The House by the Sea review by CH
A meandering modern quasi Chekovian scripted film set in outskirts of Marseille with some gritty locational detail…..noisy trains cross the rail viaduct built into the cliff face, security police constantly scouring the coves for illegal immigrants..The reluctant return of (ageing and quarrelsome) siblings to the deathbed of their sick father, is a chance to pick at old familial sores and settle old scores. The actress (d’un certain age) consummates her stay with a one night stand with a young fisherman, the pretentious and depressed old writer’s young girlfriend elopes with a local doctor, whose elderly parents have quietly decided commit suicide rather than become a burden to encroaching modern society. Not feelgood French fare
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Like a trip to the sea during lockdown! - The House by the Sea review by KK
Just want to say we enjoyed this so much. One of the refreshing things about joining Cinema Paradiso has been looking at films we'd never have seen in a cinema, even before C19. Not from Hollywood but something from a European perspective, perhaps, or in this case, French. A breath of fresh air!
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