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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 ... read more read more...who, after completing a performance of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King in which he plays opposite an attractive and talented actress named Sylvie Leonor Silveira, receives devastating news -- his wife, his daughter, and her husband have all perished in an automobile accident. Vance becomes the guardian of his grandson, and as he learns to live without his loved ones, the boy soon becomes his best and most rewarding reason for getting through the days. Vance returns to work playing Prospero in a well-received production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and after the successful run, Vance's agent (Antoine Chappey) is flooded with offers for the actor's services. But the majority of the projects are highly dubious, and Vance ends up rejecting most of them, though he takes a role in a screen adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses directed by American filmmaker John Crawford (John Malkovich), even though he knows he's miscast. As Vance ponders retirement, his agent also passes along another sort of offer -- Sylvie has confided that she's very much attracted to Vance, but while she's more than interested in an affair, Vance isn't sure that he wants a new relationship in his life. Catherine Deneuve also appears in a supporting role as an actress working with Vance. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Manoel de Oliveira

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: August 19, 2003

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Susan Stark
November 27, 2002
Susan Stark, Detroit News

Elliptical as it is perceptive.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
November 15, 2002
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

The kind of quiet masterpiece that fully registers only after you've seen it. Full Review

Carla Meyer
November 1, 2002
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle

Subtly powerful. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
October 18, 2002
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Watching this gentle, mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time, you barely realize your mind is being blown. Full Review

Desson Thomson
October 17, 2002
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

The movie is a trove of delights.

Richard Roeper
September 16, 2002
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Wonderful performances and beautiful camera work. Full Review

Roger Ebert
September 13, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Few films seem so wise and knowing about the fact of age and the approach of the end. Full Review

Michael Wilmington
September 12, 2002
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

A work of devastating simplicity and poetic tact and grace. Full Review

Damon Smith
September 6, 2002
Damon Smith, Boston Globe

De Oliveira gives us a witty, moving, yet unsentimental study of mortality that ranks among the best work of his career.

Owen Gleiberman
September 5, 2002
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

In I'm Going Home, de Oliveira, as alive as any filmmaker, captures the way that tragedy can eat away at even those who've long outlived it. Full Review

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