I'm Going Home

Name: I'm Going Home
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: August 14, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 88

2002

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Universal acclaim based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Milestone Film & Video | Release Date: August 14, 2002 | Not Rated

Summary: The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life. [Film Forum]

Director: Manoel de Oliveira

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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100

Desson Thomson

Simple, yet quietly astonishing film. Read full review

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New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

The confusing, demanding role finally brings the actor home, and us with him. Read full review

100

David Sterritt

Piccoli gives one of the most nuanced performances of his distinguished career, but the primary star of the movie is de Oliveira, who unfolds the story with unfailing skill and sensitivity. Read full review

Damon Smith

Richly allusive and eloquently stylized. Read full review

Scott Tobias

From his wonderfully idiosyncratic bits of silent comedy at a storefront window to a brilliant one-take of Malkovich watching a calamitous scene unfold, de Oliveira seems determined to exit on his own terms. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

With this moving, contemplative portrait of an artist who has suddenly become an old man, de Oliveira refuses to patronize either his hero or his audience. Read full review

Shawn Levy

The story told by I'm Going Home is small and perhaps not terribly universal. But there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us. Read full review

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RejeanR.

Aug 13, 2006

A pretentious and boring movie. The beginning is particularly untolerable (when will that play ever stop?)

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