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Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life. (Film Forum) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Piccoli gives one of the most nuanced performances of his distinguished career, but the primary star of the movie is de Oliveira, who unfolds the story with unfailing skill and sensitivity.
  2. One of the most beautiful of all recent films on the problems of old age -- and on the interplay of theater and life.
  3. 100
    I’m Going Home is as much an ambiguous poem to Paris as it is a study in artistic and physical mortality, and an elegy for a more decent past as it gives way to a brassier, more corrupt new century.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    In a startling move, Oliveira devotes the first 15 minutes of the film to the final moments of Ionesco's play, and it's thrilling to watch.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. RejeanR.
    4
    A pretentious and boring movie. The beginning is particularly untolerable (when will that play ever stop?)

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