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I'm Going Home (2002)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:50
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: I'm Going Home is a masterfully subtle and poignant exploration of mortality.
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: With I'M GOING HOME, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira presents a tender film about the zest for life that gives the human spirit resilience in the face of hardship. Michel Piccoli stars as... With I'M GOING HOME, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira presents a tender film about the zest for life that gives the human spirit resilience in the face of hardship. Michel Piccoli stars as Gilbert Valence, an aging actor who is in the prime of his career, enjoying his pick of prominent roles in both theater and film. During a performance of Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco, with Valence's king weeping over his lost throne, three men arrive backstage to deliver some terrible news: Valence's wife and two children have been killed in a car accident. Saddened but undefeated, Valence continues with the simple daily activities that bring him joy. Each morning he watches his young grandson, Serge (Jean Koeltgen), running off to grade school. He sits in his favorite cafe at his favorite table at the same time each day and drinks coffee. He delights in looking at the monuments of Paris at Trocadero, Place de la Concorde, and the Eiffel Tower. He wanders the grand boulevards, stopping to buy himself a new pair of shoes. A role in The Tempest keeps Valence busy, and when he's at home he plays children's games with Serge. But then his luck turns. His Paris streets become shadowy and dangerous. His agent forces him into a last-minute casting of an English-language film of James Joyce's Ulysses, directed by John Crawford (John Malkovich). And as Valence begins to feel overwhelmed and unhappy, he quickly changes his situation. "I'm going home. I want to rest," he says, and does just that. [More]
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Jean Koeltgen
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Producer: Paulo Branco
Studio: Milestone Films
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Aug 19, 2003
Reviews for I'm Going Home
a realistic look at the ways in which mortality plays into the conscious and subconscious plans of the living
A rarity, a film about old age that is neither a celebration or lament of of lost youth, nor an anticipation of impending death, but simply an unsentimental meditation on the ambiguous present, on aimlessness, isolation, and infirmity.
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.
A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera...
The kind of quiet masterpiece that fully registers only after you've seen it.
Oliveira trusts the intelligence of his audience...In the life of the city he suggests the ongoing life of humanity, the context in which individual mortality must be contemplated.
Watching this gentle, mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time, you barely realize your mind is being blown.
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