Synopsis
When Marc Isaacs is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting at home with people from his daily life: two English workers, a Pakistani neighbor, his Colombian cleaning lady and a Slovakian homeless man. Each of them will test the limits of hospitality in their own way, raising questions about altruism, fear, love…
A word from Tënk
What if the lives of ordinary people were more interesting than those of serial killers? Starting from this premise, Marc Isaacs offers us, as usual, a clever mix of empathy, dry humor and provocation. Here he pushes the line even further by making his house the scene of improbable encounters between representatives of the English melting pot: a veiled Pakistani neighbor, a craftsman who supports the Arsenal, a mystical cleaning lady and a homeless man with dirty feet, all of whom will see their values and beliefs put to the test. In this game with precise entrances and exits, not unlike boulevard theater, the filmmaker does not spare himself, exposing his own desire to direct and control his characters, but also his economic and social ascendancy. A funny and cruel tale about the limits of hospitality, The Filmmaker's House is also a tasty moment of exploration of the frontiers of staging, of the real and the fake and of cinema.
Éva Tourrent
Filmmaker and Tënk France's Artistic Director
