With: Mia Goth, Claudie Blakley, Matthew Goode, Mark Heap, Miranda Richardson, Stephanie Cole, Jarvis Cocker, Yvonne Lombard, Sven Wollter, Will Sharpe, Paul Kaye, Susan Wokoma, Helena Bonham Carter (voices)
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Written by: Enda Walsh, based on a story by Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Johannes Nyholm, Paloma Baeza
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Directed by: Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 97
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Date: 01/14/2022
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Foul-Dwelling
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
The very strange, stop-motion animated The House was originally intended to be a series, but three episodes were instead edited into a feature-length film. In the first segment, a family of humans living in poverty is offered a chance to move into a huge house for free, but the parents become obsessed with the place, to the point of ignoring their children. In the second, a mouse in a suit has spent his life fixing up a beautiful house to sell, only to find it inhabited by unwanted guests. In the third, and best, segment, a cat struggles to collect rent and fix up her crumbling building, while flood waters rise outside. The tone here is often unsettling and disturbing, but sometimes clever and beautiful as well. Irish playwright Enda Walsh wrote the script, and Mia Goth, Matthew Goode, Miranda Richardson, and Helena Bonham Carter, among others, provide voices.
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