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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 45 m
I Was at Home, But

Summary Astrid (Maren Eggert) is a forty-something mother of two, struggling to regain her balance in the wake of her husband’s death. Her adolescent son Phillip (Jakob Lassalle) disappeared for a week and now that he has returned, he faces disciplinary action at school and his toe requires amputation. As new questions confront Astrid from every...

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 45 m

I Was at Home, But

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Astrid (Maren Eggert) is a forty-something mother of two, struggling to regain her balance in the wake of her husband’s death. Her adolescent son Phillip (Jakob Lassalle) disappeared for a week and now that he has returned, he faces disciplinary action at school and his toe requires amputation. As new questions confront Astrid from every...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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90
Feb 27, 2020
This isn’t an easy movie, which is to say its meanings and motives have no interest in announcing themselves. But neither is it especially difficult, and if you let it, Schanelec’s gentle, supple stream of images and their attendant associations will bear you dreamily aloft. The meanings, if not necessarily the motives, will follow.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2019
In another director’s hands this might all have been a bit of a slog but there is a quiet humor and lightness of touch to Schanelec’s direction and a self-effacing irony to Aistrid’s rambling that saves it from pure maudlinism.
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75
Feb 14, 2020
I Was at Home, But... creates a space where questions are asked, but rarely answered, where things are suggested and never underlined, and every element — camera placement, music, blocking, sound design — is so deliberate that it pulls you into its vortex, and it makes you submit to its severe rhythms.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 15, 2019
This is a film that stages itself in non-linear narratives, in severe, clinical long takes, in metaphorical observations, and even extended sequences of Shakespearean re-enactment–a film whose aesthetics may be intensely controlled and yet whose narrative is sprawling with meanings and readings.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 12, 2020
In I Was at Home, but…, the German director Angela Schanelec seems to have taken her ideas and stashed them deep in a private vault. Every so often, though, she cracks open this movie — with a line, an image, a snatch of a song — offering you fugitive glimpses of an intensely personal world.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 12, 2020
The filmmakers that Schanelec draws on for inspiration are all masters of one kind of economy or another. The problem is that Schanelec herself is not. Despite its austere, theory-heavy minimalism, I Was At Home, But… is lopsided and lumpy, filled with longueurs in which the brain begins to check out.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 14, 2019
The movie is not without interest, but I found it mannered, derivative and opaque.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nachmittagfilm, Dart Film & Video
Release Date Feb 14, 2020
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://ich-war-zuhause-aber.de/
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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