Our Home
2012 · 22m · Canada
Directed by Richard LeBlanc
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Burdened by debt, a man returns to Acadia to find the mobile home his family left when he was four, comparing memories with his siblings in hopes of recovering the carefree child he once was.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a memory film, sure, but LeBlanc's refusal to resolve the contradiction between what was and what we wanted it to be—that's the subversive move; most directors would've settled for nostalgia, and he just lets it sit there, unresolved and honest.
A formally disciplined essay that understands its genealogy in the personal documentary tradition while executing its own intervention: the triangulation of three perspectives on a single space creates a rigor that elevates what could have been mere reminiscence into something architecturally sound.
The decision to anchor the whole film in the siblings' competing recollections rather than settling on a single 'true' memory—that structural choice transforms a potentially sentimental premise into something that moves by accumulation and friction, not through a predetermined emotional arc.