75
A famous French actor using his art to work through the loss of his wife and daughter in a car accident. The strategy works, at least for a while.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Piccoli gives one of the most nuanced performances of his distinguished career, but the primary star of the movie is de Oliveira, who unfolds the story with unfailing skill and sensitivity.
70
Elusive and elliptical as it is, this is one of the most accessible films in Oliveira's recent repetoire.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
With this moving, contemplative portrait of an artist who has suddenly become an old man, de Oliveira refuses to patronize either his hero or his audience.
70
Restrained, precise, and unobtrusively wry.
90
Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis
By far the most approachable of the director's recent films, with an emotional depth that's true to life and a streamlined narrative that for long stretches barely contains a word.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
There are a few movies where you can palpably sense the presence of the director behind the camera, and I'm Going Home is one of them.
67
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
The story told by I'm Going Home is small and perhaps not terribly universal. But there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us.
75
Veteran French star Michel Piccoli is superb as an aging actor named Gilbert Valence.