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I'm Going Home

Play trailer Poster for I'm Going Home 2001,  1h 30m,  Comedy/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 96% 55 Reviews Tomatometer 68% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
96% Tomatometer 55 Reviews 68% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Elderly actor Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) steps offstage after a performance and is told that his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law have all been killed in a horrific auto accident. Time passes, and Gilbert, now the guardian of his orphaned grandson, struggles to hold on to the small meaningful routines of his life. After taking a role in a film directed by American John Crawford (John Malkovich), he considers how to manage the end of his career.

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Critics Consensus

I'm Going Home is a masterfully subtle and poignant exploration of mortality.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker May 26, 2020
Oliveira, a nonagenarian when he made the film, conveys the hidden rapture of daily life-and the power of images to preserve it. Go to Full Review
Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Sep 25, 2003
A-
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. Go to Full Review
Susan Stark Detroit News Nov 27, 2002
3/4
Elliptical as it is perceptive. Go to Full Review
Steve Erickson Nashville Scene Mar 4, 2019
[Michel] Piccoli's performance is the film's beating heart. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Aug 28, 2012
A
An understated film that touches on greatness. Go to Full Review
Film Threat Dec 6, 2005
3/5
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Hermione R May 28, 2018 There's some eternal wisdom perceptible in this movie, wisdom of a man who has lived long enough to possess something to share it with the world, but I'm sure you have to watch this movie multiple times to fully comprehend this wisdom to benefit profoundly from it. It is a very thoughtful cinema. See more
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Manoel de Oliveira

Director

Michel Piccoli

Gilbert Valence

Antoine Chappey

George

Catherine Deneuve

Marguerite

John Malkovich

John Crawford

Leonor Baldaque

Sylvia

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Synopsis Elderly actor Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) steps offstage after a performance and is told that his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law have all been killed in a horrific auto accident. Time passes, and Gilbert, now the guardian of his orphaned grandson, struggles to hold on to the small meaningful routines of his life. After taking a role in a film directed by American John Crawford (John Malkovich), he considers how to manage the end of his career.
Director
Manoel de Oliveira
Producer
Paulo Branco
Screenwriter
Manoel de Oliveira
Production Co
Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Films, France 2 Cinéma
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 19, 2003
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Surround
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