I'm Going Home

Portugal / France 2001, 83 minutes
Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Topics: Showbiz, Late-life.

Feat. Michel Piccoli, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve

Aroview: Calmly balanced between drama and sly comedy, this excursion into the trials and experiences of old age, is a late tour-de-force by the 92-year old Portuguese dir. de Oliveira.

Piccoli plays an aging stage thespian who is cut adrift by the death of his wife, daughter and son-in-law. Life treading the boards continues in a variety of stageplays, while he is simultaneously tempted into an absurd film production of Joyce's "Ulysses" being 'directed by' John Malkovich. A dryly witty delight.

NZ International Film Festival 2002