Product Details

• Actors: Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin, Gérard Depardieu, Micheline Presle
• Directors: Alain Resnais
• Writers: Jules Feiffer
• Producers: Christian Ferry, Marin Karmitz
• Format: PAL
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: VellaVision
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000AZ69DC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,987 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "I Want to Go Home (aka Je veux rentrer à la maison )" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Ceasar Awards, Fantasporto Awards, Venice Film Festival, ...I Want To Go Home ( Je veux rentrer à la maison )

Customer Reviews

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2.0 out of 5 stars Some witty depictions of the French and France, but shallow and uninteresting depctions of Americans, July 19, 2011

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This review is from: I Want to Go Home (Je Veux Rentrer A La Maison) (1989) (DVD)

It's hard to believe that this pathetic thing was directed by the same Alain Resnais as the one who directed other wonderful films, such as 'Providence', and 'Last Year at Marienbad'. The wonderful performances of Gerard Depardieu, Micheline Presle, and Linda Lavin cannot carry the extremely grating and annoying performance of Adolph Green. No bad acting, no matter how putrescent, can do justice to the ridiculous and vulgarly scripted role of Joey Wellman. Linda Lavin does a good job trying to redeem the American characters, but Laura Benson's wooden acting complements Green's crude balsa wood lampooning of Americans. Depardieu, Presle, and Lavin are evanescent, all the more so in the dim company of Green and Benson, but, unfortunately, do not take up enough screen time to keep this film above water, much as it pains me to write this about any Resnais film.

Let's hope for a Criterion Blu-ray edition of the wonderful 'Providence' to offset the damage done to Resnais' reputation by this poor film.