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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In Walk Away Renee, Caouette embarks on a road trip to move his mentally ill mother Renee across the country. As they encounter roadblocks in the present, we begin to flash back to moments from the past, giving us insight into this anything-but-ordinary mother/son relationship. Through musical montage, psychedelic sequences and real and ...

Directed By: Jonathan Caouette

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 30 m

Walk Away Renee

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary In Walk Away Renee, Caouette embarks on a road trip to move his mentally ill mother Renee across the country. As they encounter roadblocks in the present, we begin to flash back to moments from the past, giving us insight into this anything-but-ordinary mother/son relationship. Through musical montage, psychedelic sequences and real and ...

Directed By: Jonathan Caouette

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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86% Mixed
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63
Nov 27, 2012
It's Jonathan Caouette's insistence in going back to his nightmarish old footage, or the old footage that he purposefully renders nightmarish, that seems more interesting.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 27, 2012
Picking up where his 2003 "Tarnation" left off, Jonathan Caouette's new documentary is no less hermetic, autobiographical, messy, and ultimately touching.
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60
Nov 27, 2012
The way forward, both in Caouette's real-life situation and his development as an artist, remains unclear, yet that frustration makes it to the screen, in spiky waves that signal a vital personal quest.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 30, 2012
Ultimately, "Renee" feels less like a walk away than a retread.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 30, 2012
Walk Away Renee lets us observe a mother-son bond, but Mr. Caouette hasn't found a way to galvanize this incarnation of material for strangers.
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50
Nov 30, 2012
It's problematic, however, that we learn very little here that wasn't more stirringly conveyed in the earlier film. In its mesmerizing, propulsive drive, "Tarnation" was a heartfelt scramble to make sense of messy lives. Walk Away Renee is an occasionally illuminating patchwork.
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Nov 29, 2012
The extra money has bought a professional crew for scripted sequences, in which Jonathan and his mother too often mug for the camera.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Love Streams Productions, Morgane Production, Hummingbird 72, Polyester, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Agnès b. Productions
Release Date Nov 30, 2012
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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