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  • Agora Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • Agora Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances. While their mother grapples with her memo...

Directed By: Catherine Corsini

Written By: Naïla Guiguet, Catherine Corsini

  • Agora Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • Agora Films
  • 1 h 50 m
Homecoming
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
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Summary Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances. While their mother grapples with her memo...

Directed By: Catherine Corsini

Written By: Naïla Guiguet, Catherine Corsini

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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80
May 22, 2023
Corsini has delivered a wonderful film, a beautifully calibrated coming-of-age drama that ever so elegantly flutters questions of race, class, guilt and opportunity through a seaside summer breeze.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
80
May 22, 2023
The film isn’t always subtle, and like much of the director’s work it sometimes teeters on melodrama . . . But it’s also undoubtedly moving.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
70
May 22, 2023
Corsini leans a little too hard on narrative convenience, but she also has a gift for illuminating everyday racism — the matter-of-fact microaggressions, the unspoken anxieties — in a story of youthful alienation and restlessness. Whenever believability falters, Corsini and her fine actors manage to pull you back in.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
70
May 22, 2023
Taut, no-frills execution – notwithstanding some gorgeous but altogether untouristic landscape photography by Jeanne Lapoirie – helps to foreground the performances poignantly and compellingly.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
60
May 22, 2023
Homecoming gives an empathetic portrait of a family in a phase of change. Girls are becoming women; a mother is beginning to return to life. It has the promise of a prelude.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
50
May 25, 2023
The result is a movie that registers as slight by its end, despite the talent found within its confines. What is nonetheless evident, however, is that Bemba and Gohourou are worth watching as they go forward in their careers.
By Esther Zuckerman FULL REVIEW
40
May 22, 2023
The performances are very strong, and there’s a great sisterly relationship between Bemba and Gohourou; they deserved a more substantial story.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Chaz Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Le Pacte, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Collectivité Territoriale de la Corse, SofiTVciné 10, La Banque Postale Image 16, Cinéaxe 4, Arte Cofinova 19
Duration 1 h 50 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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