#8) In the House, by Francois Ozon (2012)
It’s okay, you can shame me for lacking diversity. This is the second French film on this list driven by sexuality and a plot that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. And while they may be bunched up on my list, I assure you, these kinds of films are rarely exposed to American audiences. They take us deeper into the psyche of our most primordial myths, when stories were quite literally merged with the reality of cultures, spirit animals serving as gods and sacrifices, fertility gods and goddesses making the rains fall and the grass grow. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is an English teacher, disappointed with a classroom that can’t write two sentences. Until he stumbles upon a budding young writer, Claude (Ernst Umhauer), who shares a first person story about a character obsessed with becoming part of another family, the Artole’s. After several entries, it becomes clear that Claude has legitimately cast himself in this story, delivering slightly embellished journal entries tha...