I'm Going Home (film)
- Michel Piccoli: Gilbert Valence
- Antoine Chappey: George
- John Malkovich: Director
- Catherine Deneuve: Marguerite
- Leonor Baldaque: Sylvia
- Leonor Silveira: Marie
- Ricardo Trêpa: Guardian
- Jean -Michel Arnold: doctor
- Adrien de Van: Ferdinand
- Sylvie Testud: Ariel
- Andrew Wale: Stephen
- Robert Dauney: Haines
- Isabel Ruth: Milk woman
- Christian America: Bistro owners
I go home is a French- Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira from the year 2001.
Action
The renowned theater actor Gilbert Valence is shared with after a celebrated idea that his wife, his daughter and his son died in a car accident. His eight year old grandson is now his main task, but also his last stop in life, in the by and by feeding the routine of a comfortable daily life.
In his long acting career, he played all the roles that an actor could wish, and he received a lot of recognition. But times change, and now a television production is offered to him, which he deeply opposes the face of the screenplay and the all too lurid ingredients, despite the tempting Gage. The offer of an American director to play the lead role in his film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, then mobilized again his ambition. But the foreign language and its declining mental abilities allow him to despair, and he leaves the location, silently eloquent words muttering: " I'm going home."
Reception
The film is determined by melancholy and the dwindling zest for life of the main character. One sees an aging theater actor, which, after the blow of a stale re-entry is not possible. His human relationships in particular to his grandson to give him support, but he fails to modern, commercial orientations in his profession, and the general increase in fast pace and uncertainty in a changing against human society, and finally he also fails simply on age.
It is the story of a theater stars earned at the end of his career and his life tells that preserves his dignity, while the world slowly but surely ever more distant around him from a civilized culture. The camera follows the main character here with great attention, and its subtle, soulful story encourages the viewer to think.
" Michel Piccoli shines in this Portuguese drama as a theater actor who has to care for the eight year old grandson after an accidental death in his family. A gentle, quiet and enchanting film with a big mimes. "
The film had on 13 May 2001 following premiere at the International Film Festival in Cannes, where he was in competition. He had on June 7 on the Festroia Film Festival, and on June 8, he ran in Italy His Portuguese premiere. He won the Globo de Ouro and various international price, so in Haifa and São Paulo.