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VIDEO RELEASE
Aug 19, 2003 (DVD)
CONSENSUS
I'm Going Home is a masterfully subtle and poignant exploration of mortality.
CAST & CREW
Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich
Directed by Manoel De Oliveira
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SYNOPSIS
With I'M GOING HOME, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira presents a tender film about the zest for life that gives the human spirit resilience in the face of hardship. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
90 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 14, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Milestone Films
GENRE
Dramas, Foreign Films, Drama, Paris, France, Film About Film, Actors
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official I'm Going Home Site
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 "One of the greatest films I've ever seen."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
 "Piccoli's performance is amazing, yes, but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"De Oliveira creates an emotionally rich, poetically plump and visually fulsome, but never showy, film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by Michel Piccoli."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A poignant, artfully crafted meditation on mortality."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"Stylistically adventurous."
-- John Hartl, SEATTLE TIMES
"Michel Piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"There's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"A masterful film from a master filmmaker, unique in its deceptive grimness, compelling in its fatalist worldview."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"It will break your heart."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"While this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures, it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"De Oliveira seems not only to have read John Berger's famous essay On Looking, but also to have taken it as his personal instruction manual for filmmaking."
-- Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, POPMATTERS
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"Ample proof of the director's great wit and wisdom."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"A different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know."
-- Marta Barber, MIAMI HERALD
"A touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by Michel Piccoli."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"This is one of Oliveira's most engaging, most accessible films to date."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"It reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"Oliveira trusts the intelligence of his audience...In the life of the city he suggests the ongoing life of humanity, the context in which individual mortality must be contemplated."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life."
-- Eric Monder, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"It is a tough film to sit through, not out of any violence or perversion, but for its destitution."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
"Piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling."
-- Ed Scheid, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Judging from the strength of this superbly enigmatic film, Oliveira himself seems far from ready to go home."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
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Avg. Rating: 8.6/10 |
"If it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son, more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Few films seem so wise and knowing about the fact of age and the approach of the end."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"In I'm Going Home, de Oliveira, as alive as any filmmaker, captures the way that tragedy can eat away at even those who've long outlived it."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Escaping the studio, Piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who, in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude, knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Like a precious and finely cut diamond, magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Watching this gentle, mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time, you barely realize your mind is being blown."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"The movie is a trove of delights."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"At the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies, Michel Piccoli."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Subtly powerful."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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