I Want to Go Home
1989/09/27 • Released • English, French
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.
Director : Alain Resnais
Casts
Laura Benson
Elsie Wellman
Adolph Green
Joey Wellman
Linda Lavin
Lena Apthrop
Gérard Depardieu
Christian Gauthier
Geraldine Chaplin
Terry Amstrong
François-Eric Gendron
Lionel Cohn-Martin
John Ashton
Harry Dempsey
Caroline Silhol
Dora Dempsey
Micheline Presle
Isabelle Gauthier
Patrick Bonnel
Le boucher
Alain Fromager
L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
Peter Hudson
Le Spectre
Raphaëline Goupilleau
L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Habiague
La jeune femme qui chante
Ludivine Sagnier
La petite fille de la place du village
Anne Teyssèdre
La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Turpault
Catwoman
Abbes Zahmani
Le Concombre Masqué
Lucienne Hamon
Mme Roget
Catherine Arditi
La boulangère
Anne Roussel
La jeune femme fatiguée
Jean Champion
Le chauffeur de taxi
Emmanuelle Chaulet
La secrétaire de Gauthier
Pierre Decazes
Le garagiste
Françoise Bertin
La cliente de la marchande de légumes
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