Home is a 2020 drama. It's the first movie of Franka Potente as a director, and scriptwriter. She is a well known actress: Run Lola run, the "Borne" franchise, superheroes movies and popular TV series.

Potente said it was inspired by her own experience, as she moved from Germany to the U.S. after this first success, and she has felt unwelcome when she visits Germany.

Acting

With the director being mainly an actress, one can expect that the actors can give their best.

The main character is played by a very convincing Jake McLaughlin, who is a veteran of the US Army, and fought the war in Irak in 2002-2006.

It also features Kathy Bates: she is a versatile, non-glamorous actress, has a career over 50 years, Academy award winner, and played in over 100 films.

About genre, cinematography

The location, cinematography and some themes are quite familiar to the western genre. About cinematography: Frank Griebe was also the DOP of Run, Lola Run.

Final words

Here's an interesting question: what is "Home"?

Let me try to avoid double meanings, hidden references and stick to a rather technical description: it's a multicultural and multinational drama.

It's produced by German, French and Dutch companies, but is deeply rooted by its a foreign location, in that case where the director feels at home (in a remote place in California, somewhere between the Central Valley and the Mojave desert).

I prefer to let you discover its themes, as the story unfolds.

Without further ado, a final quote: Potente mentioned that it is about "how beauty and brutality can coexist".