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I Want to Go Home (1989)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
Style:
clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot:
cartoonist, extramarital affair, satire, culture clash, family relations, parents and children, society, lifestyle, disorder, fish out of water, estrangement, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, performer's life, communication problem, party, tarzan, singing, director, palace, masked man, surrealism, language barrier, meeting, popeye ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, american
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Duration: 104 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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