I want to go homeDirected by Alain Resnais
Produced by mk2
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 45 min
French release : 27/09/1989
Production year : 1989
DirectorActorsSynopsis 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. Source : Wikipedia. About The project initially arose from Resnais's admiration for the plays of the American writer and illustrator Jules Feiffer. Although there was originally no intention of highlighting the comic-strip, Feiffer suggested using the character of a comic illustrator as the means of exploring American and French attitudes towards the appreciation of cartoons and comic-books. This appealed to Resnais's own longstanding enthusiasm for comic-strips, and allowed him to develop a film that was dense with references to cartoon characters and their creators. (Animated characters often appear within the frame to converse with one of the live-actors.) Resnais was also fascinated by the question of whether people could appreciate comics on the same level as a literary work such as one by Flaubert. Another source of reference was American musical comedy, underlined by the casting in the central role of Adolph Green, writer of classic musicals such as On the Town, Singin' in the Rain, and The Bandwagon, and by the choice of John Kander, composer of Cabaret and Chicago, to provide the musical score. The film was made predominantly in English. A dubbed French version was subsequently created (without Resnais's participation). Source : Wikipedia. Production and distributionAssociate production company : mk2
Co-production : Films A2
Film export/Foreign Sales : mk2
French distribution : mk2
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Marin Karmitz
Assistant Director : Yann Gilbert
Associate Producer : Christian Ferry
Screenwriter : Jules Feiffer
Director of Photography : Charlie Van Damme
Sound Recordist : Jean-Claude Laureux
Sound Assistant : Sylvain Lasseur
Assistant Operators : Arthur Cloquet, Gilbert Duhalde
Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
Editor : Albert Jurgenson
Sound Editor : Nadine Muse
Assistant Editors : Martine Fleury, Élisabeth Guido
Production Designer : Philippe Turlure
Music Composer : John Kander
Production Designers : Claude Moesching, Jacques Saulnier
Costume Designer : Catherine Leterrier
Sound Mixer : Jean-Paul Loublier
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Comedy
Production language : French
Production year : 1989
French release : 27/09/1989
Runtime : 1 h 45 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 67397
Visa issue date : 06/09/1989
Approval : Unknown
Production formats :
35mm
Color type : Color
Sound format : Stereo
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