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I'm Going Home (French: Je rentre à la maison, Portuguese: Vou Para Casa) is a 2001 French-Portuguese film written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

I'm Going Home
Directed by	Manoel de Oliveira
Written by	Manoel de Oliveira
Produced by	Paulo Branco
Starring	Michel Piccoli Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich
Release date	13 May 2001 (2001-05-13) (Cannes)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	France Portugal
Languages	French English
Box office	$853,000[1]

Plot

Gilbert Valence is a grand old theatre actor who receives the shocking news that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. As time passes, Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris, turning down unsuitable roles in low-brow television productions and looking after his 9-year-old grandson. When an American filmmaker miscasts him in an ill-conceived adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, Valence finds himself compelled to make a decision about his life.[2]

Cast

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

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 96% approval rating based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 7.78/10 and the consensus that it is "a masterfully subtle and poignant exploration of morality."[3] It was one of the films in competition for the Palme d'Or in the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[4] It won the Critics Award for Best Film at the 2001 São Paulo International Film Festival and the Golden Anchor Award at the 2002 Haifa International Film Festival. It also won the Globo de Ouro for Best Film at the 2002 Globos de Ouro. Michel Piccoli was nominated for Best Actor at the 2001 European Film Awards.

Anthony Quinn of The Independent wrote, "Always good to see Michel Piccoli...in Manoel de Oliveira's I'm Going Home he plays Valence, a grand old stage actor who has recently lost his family...Few cameras stare so intently at things as de Oliveira's, and the long excerpts he films from Ionesco and The Tempest are frankly de trop, but this patient detailing of an actor's life...has a fascination akin to watching a sun slowly disappear beneath the horizon."[5]

References

External links

• I'm Going Home at AllMovie
• I'm Going Home at IMDb

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