Je rentre à la maison = I'm going home / une coproduction Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Films, France 2 Cinéma ; Paulo Branco présente ; un film de Manoel de Oliveira ; scénario et dialogues de Manoel de Oliveira ; produit par Paulo Branco ; réalisation, Manoel de Oliveira.
Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. A foreign film (France, Portugal). Bonus features: commentary by Richard Pena, program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center and associate professor in film studies, Columbia University; a filmed interview with Monoel de Oliveira (approximately 14 min.); theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and returns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language production of Ulysses, Valance struggles to master the dialogue and his own emotions.
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