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Bookmark this pageI Want to Go Home (1989)
Director: Alain Resnais
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From Time Out Film Guide
To make a movie inspired by comic strip art has been a long term ambition for Renais; sadly, fulfilment of the dream seems too have come to late. Scripted by Jules Feiffer, this is a predictable tale of a boorishly xenophobic American cartoonist (in Paris for an exhibition of his work) and his estranged daughter (an unforgiving Franco-phile academic), who belatedly make friends thanks to unwitting intermediary Depardieu, a Sorbonne genius with a characteristically French love of pulp art. If it's meant to be funny, moving or an essay on the gulf between American and European mores, it fails; worse, however, the central characters are all so downright egocentric and unpleasant that they virtually drive you screaming from the cinema.Author: GA
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- Matt said...
- Posted on Mar 30 2009 19:12 Larry's comment will offend some - but there's not much in it to argue with. For me, not a good film - pretentious, maybe.
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- Larry said...
- Posted on May 02 2008 01:25 el stinko!
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Cast & crew
Director: Alain Resnais
Producer: Marin Karmitz
Cast: Adolph Green, Gérard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Micheline Presle, Laura Benson, Geraldine Chaplin full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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