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I Was at Home, But

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After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
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Critics Consensus

I Was at Home, But... withholds easy gratification, but viewers who settle into its austere rhythms will be rewarded with a story rich with meaning.

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Justin Chang Los Angeles Times 02/27/2020
This is unbearably good cinema. Go to Full Review Jordan Cronk Film Comment Magazine 02/19/2020
There's no denying the boldness of [I Was at Home, But...]-fractured, elliptical, and highly mannered, the film hardly betrays Schanelec's ideology. Go to Full Review Sheila O'Malley RogerEbert.com 02/14/2020
3/4
Every element -- camera placement, music, blocking, sound design -- is so deliberate that it pulls you into its vortex, and it makes you submit to its severe rhythms. Go to Full Review Lawrence Garcia In Review Online 06/05/2021
[The film is] ... an invitation to dance - not to forget that governing question, but to sublimate it into movement, as if to make one's body feel what one would ask of it. Go to Full Review Steven Warner In Review Online 06/04/2021
It becomes clear that Schanelec is commenting on both the contradictory nature of life itself and the duality of man, with the film as a whole serving as the ultimate example. Go to Full Review Eulàlia Iglesias Fotogramas 10/09/2020
5/5
A splendid Maren Eggert. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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adam a @RT27006343 03/23/2025 Shouldn't review a movie I didn't finish, but this one deserves it. It makes no attempt to keep you watching. After 30 minutes, no hint of a plot at all. Not an interesting dialogue, nothing funny, shocking or even vaguely interesting. Like somebody didn't know they were recording for a week, and then edited out anything interesting that happened and showed us what was left See more Read all reviews
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Angela Schanelec

Director

Maren Eggert

Mutter Astrid

Dane Komljen

Jorge

Jakob Lassalle

Phillip

Clara Möller

Flo

Franz Rogowski

Lars
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Synopsis After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
Director
Angela Schanelec
Screenwriter
Angela Schanelec
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$14.1K
Runtime
1h 45m
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