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6.9/10   883 votes
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Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Writers:
Jacques Parsi (French consultant)
Manoel de Oliveira (writer)
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Release Date:
8 June 2001 (Italy) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
A moving and subtle masterpiece more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Michel Piccoli ... Gilbert Valence

Catherine Deneuve ... Marguerite

John Malkovich ... John Crawford, Film Director
Antoine Chappey ... George
Leonor Baldaque ... Sylvia
Leonor Silveira ... Marie
Ricardo Trêpa ... Guard
Jean-Michel Arnold ... Doctor
Adrien de Van ... Ferdinand
Sylvie Testud ... Ariel
Isabel Ruth ... Milkmaid
Andrew Wale ... Stephen
Robert Dauney ... Haines
Jean Koeltgen ... Serge
Mauricette Gourdon ... Guilhermine, the Housekeeper
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
I Go Home (Australia) (TV title)
I'm Going Home (Portugal)
Vou Para Casa (Portugal)
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
France | Portugal
Language:
French | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Company:
Canal+ more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2001 (#05) more
Goofs:
Continuity: From the 2nd to the 3rd Café scene, the headlines on both Le Figaro and Liberátion do not change, and it is supposed to be another day. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil (2009) more
Soundtrack:
Sous le ciel de Paris more

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12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
A moving and subtle masterpiece, 12 September 2002
9/10
Author: William J. Fickling (wjfickling@earthlink.net) from Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Anyone who thinks this movie is boring is a horse's ass who should stick to car chase movies. This is a brilliant, moving, and subtle film that is all the more poignant because, it's director being a nonagenarian, it could well be his swan song, and that of its 76 year old principal as well. De Oliveira, like his lead character, will not compromise his principles by dumbing down his material. Much of the film is silent, i.e., with no dialogue precisely because it is a film, a visual medium, not a play. The done is set by De Oliveira's daring opening, which consists of its actor-character enacting the finale of an Ionesco play, which goes on for over 15 minutes. A daring move that pays off because, perhaps predictably, what happens in the play is a predictor of what is to come. The film is not unlike King Lear, in that it stresses the sadness of seeing one who once had greatness, and who still has flashes of it, in decline and perhaps at the end of his powers. It is a sublime meditation on the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fighting it. A minor masterpiece.

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