I'm Going Home

A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic undertones. Gilbert Vance (Michel Piccoli) is an aging but highly respected actor who, after completing a performance of Eugene Ionesco's +Exit the King in which he plays opposite an ...more

Manoel de Oliveira's I'm Going Home was something of a U.S. breakthrough for the Portuguese director after decades of critical success on the film-fest circuit. Starring a magnificent Michel Piccoli as Gilbert Valence, an aging actor who loses his wife, daughter, and son-in-law in an accident, the movie resists the clichés of the loss-and-bereavement genre. Like its protagonist, I'm Going Home coasts along at a serene pace, seemingly unruffled by tragedy. Oliveira's steady gaze, emanating the ...more