Greets the inevitability of death with remarkable candor and depth.
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08/13/02
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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... [More]
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
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Reviews for I'm Going Home
While this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures, it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience.
05/13/02
De Oliveira gives us a witty, moving, yet unsentimental study of mortality that ranks among the best work of his career.
09/06/02
Piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling.
05/22/02
The kind of quiet masterpiece that fully registers only after you've seen it.
11/15/02
Top CriticFew films seem so wise and knowing about the fact of age and the approach of the end.
09/13/02
Top CriticA work of devastating simplicity and poetic tact and grace.
09/12/02
Top CriticA miraculous movie, I'm Going Home is so slight, yet overflows with wisdom and emotion.
08/14/02
One of the greatest films I've ever seen.
11/07/02
Michel Piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being.
09/27/01
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.
10/26/02
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.
09/25/03
Elliptical as it is perceptive.
11/27/02
Top CriticWonderful performances and beautiful camera work.
09/16/02
Top CriticNo review available.
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12/30/06
In I'm Going Home, de Oliveira, as alive as any filmmaker, captures the way that tragedy can eat away at even those who've long outlived it.
09/05/02
Top CriticAmple proof of the director's great wit and wisdom.
04/24/02
A masterful film from a master filmmaker, unique in its deceptive grimness, compelling in its fatalist worldview.
09/15/02
Speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life.
08/17/02
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