I Want to Go Home

Year: 1989

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: French

Director: Alain Resnais

Comedy

Cartoonist Joey Wellman, once known in Cleveland, goes to Paris with partner Lena for an exhibition of his bandes dessinées. He hopes to reconcile with his daughter Elsie, a student enchanted by French literature who escaped American culture. A weekend at professor Christian Gauthier’s mother Isabelle’s country house, highlighted by a comic‑themed masquerade, forces them to re‑examine their relationships.

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