Saturday, 20 October 2012 A sixteen-year-old student befriends a classmate and writes stories about his family, leaving his tutor compelled by his great work. However, the student's writing leads to a series of events that change everyone's lives. There seems to be a postmodern prevalence in films these days to tell a story which is actually about stories. Rango . Seven Psychopaths . The Prestige . All recent (-ish), all great films, and they all to different extents comment on filmmaking and story telling. In the House takes that as its main priority and creates a bonkers story that is confusing and yet makes sense at the same time. It is, not to put it lightly, a master class in storytelling. It's a story about a story, that uses a story as a framing device. It all starts when a young student, Claude (Umhauer) starts writing fictional stories about his fellow classmate Rapha (Ughetto). He brings them to his teacher Germain (Luchini) who gives him advice on how to improve them. But eventually Germain gets too involved and the line between reality and story is frequently crossed. I'm not going to go into story details. Not because I'm afraid I'll spoil things, but just because I am not entirely sure what happened. It's not that this movie is hard to follow; it's just one of those that needs (and deserves) a second viewing. It talks about the best way to perfect a story while giving you a great one to