I Want to Go Home

Overview

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 27, 1989

Original language

French

Spoken languages

English, Spanish, French

Countries

France

Production

Films A2,La Sept,MK2 Productions

Cast

Laura Benson,Adolph Green,Linda Lavin,Gérard Depardieu,Geraldine Chaplin,François-Eric Gendron,Georges Fricker,John Ashton,Caroline Silhol,Micheline Presleand 26 more

Director

Alain Resnais

Writer

Jules Feiffer

Producer

Marin Karmitz

Cinematography

Charles Van Damme

Music

John Kander

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0097555