A poignant, artfully crafted meditation on mortality.
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09/27/02
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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
It will break your heart.
09/25/02
A different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know.
09/20/02
Wonderful performances and beautiful camera work.
09/16/02
Top CriticA masterful film from a master filmmaker, unique in its deceptive grimness, compelling in its fatalist worldview.
09/15/02
Few 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 CriticDe Oliveira gives us a witty, moving, yet unsentimental study of mortality that ranks among the best work of his career.
09/06/02
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 CriticWhat a role this is for Piccoli, who plays the hubristic king, the bereaved husband, the grand artist, in tones that range from thunder to whisper.
09/05/02
Top CriticDe Oliveira creates an emotionally rich, poetically plump and visually fulsome, but never showy, film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by Michel Piccoli.
08/30/02
A film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities.
08/30/02
If it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son, more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions.
08/29/02
Judging from the strength of this superbly enigmatic film, Oliveira himself seems far from ready to go home.
08/29/02
De Oliveira seems not only to have read John Berger's famous essay On Looking, but also to have taken it as his personal instruction manual for filmmaking.
08/23/02
An old man's film in terms of its subject, star and protagonist, 76-year-old Michel Piccoli, but not in terms of its rigorous style or its austere denial of sentimentality and self-pity.
08/22/02
Top CriticA touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by Michel Piccoli.
08/17/02
Speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life.
08/17/02
This is one of Oliveira's most engaging, most accessible films to date.
08/14/02
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