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I want to go home
Title
I want to go home [videorecording] / directed by Alain Resnais.
Published
New York : Kino Video, 2008, p1989.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
Special features: Original theatrical trailer; interview with producer Martin Karmitz on the making of the film, and on working with director Alain Resnais.
In English or French with optional English subtitles.
Summary
American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Lavin), and the two are ostensibly journeying to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition in which Wellman's work is included. But it turns out the exhibition is just an excuse for Wellman to track down his errant daughter Elsie (Laura Benson), who has left Cleveland to take up literature at the Sorbonne. Her professor, Christian Gauthier (Gerard Depardieu) happens to be a big fan of Wellman, and he corrals the cartoonist and Lena to go to the fashionable country estate of his mother Isabelle (Micheline Presle), who tries to put up with her son's American friends.
Variant and related titles
Also known as: Je veux returner a la maison
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French; English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2008
Cast
Micheline Presle, Catherine Arditi, John Ashton, Laura Benson, Francoise Bertin.
System details note
DVD, full screen (1.66:1) presentation, enhanced for 16x9 TVs; Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Issue number
KS2059 Kino
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Also listed under
Kino International Corporation.
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