I Want to Go Home (1989)

Directors

Alain Resnais

Cast

Adolph Green, Alain Fromager, Anne Roussel, Anne Teyssèdre, Caroline Silhol, Catherine Arditi, Charlotte Bonnet, Emmanuelle Chaulet, François-Eric Gendron, Françoise Bertin, Geraldine Chaplin, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Turpault, Jean Champion, Jean-Marc Cozic, John Ashton, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin, Lucienne Hamon, Ludivine Sagnier, Micheline Presle, Patrick Bonnel, Peter Hudson, Pierre Decazes, Raphaëline Goupilleau

The 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.

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