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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,
By Charlie "Charlie" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews
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. |
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I Want to Go Home (aka Je veux rentrer à la maison ) by Alain Resnais (DVD)
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