In the House (2012)
Directed by François Ozon
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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What critics compared In the House to
The ending of In the House is blatant homage to Rear Window (1954).
Their enthusiasm for the way the boy builds a Rear Window narrative grows headier with each chapter of what they feel has the potential to be a great coming-of-age novel.
Adapted by the director from Juan Mayorga's play The Boy in the Last Row, In the House amounts to an insinuating mash-up of Election, Rear Window and Adaptation.
By the end, “In the House” becomes a remodeled “ Rear Window .”
To a plot with shades of Rear Window, Ozon has added class tensions and some clever asides on the sacrifices and responsibilities of art.
He’s also paying homage to Alfred Hitchock’s masterpiece of Peeping Tomism, Rear Window (1954), by concluding the movie with two characters peering into the back of a lit apartment building, where, in one unit, murders are taking place.