I Was at Home, But

Name: I Was at Home, But
Genre: Drama
Released: February 14, 2020
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Dane Komljen, Esther Buss, Jakob Lassalle, Jelena Kuljic, Lucas Confurius

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: February 14, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Dane Komljen, Esther Buss, Jakob Lassalle, Jelena Kuljic, Lucas Confurius, Marcel Kohler, Maren Eggert, Martin Clausen, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Wolfgang Michael

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 everyAstrid (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 angle, even simple activities like buying a bicycle or engaging with a work of art, are fraught with unexpected challenges. [Cinema Guild]
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Director: Angela Schanelec

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Justin Chang

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. Read full review

Neil Young

Feb 14, 2019

It's an uncompromising, sophisticated, multi-layered work of art which demands to be met at least halfway. Read full review

Rory O’Connor

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. Read full review

The Film Stage Ed Frankl

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. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

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. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Feb 14, 2019

What’s both intriguing and enraging about the film is the fact that it so defiantly rejects the language of cinematic storytelling; this is a film which is intended to upend audience expectations. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 14, 2019

The movie is not without interest, but I found it mannered, derivative and opaque. Read full review

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