I Want to Go Home (film)

I Want to Go Home is a 1989 French film directed by Alain Resnais, from a screenplay by Jules Feiffer. It explores the differences between French and American cultural values through a story about a veteran cartoonist who encounters conflicting reactions to his work during a trip abroad.

Adolph Green, as Joey Wellman Laura Benson, as Elsie Wellman, Joeys daughter Linda Lavin, as Lena Apthrop, Joeys partner Grard Depardieu, as Christian Gauthier Micheline Presle, as Isabelle Gauthier, Christians mother John Ashton, as Harry Dempsey, an American film director in exile Geraldine Chaplin, as Terry ArmstrongThe project initially arose from Resnaiss admiration for the plays of the American writer and illustrator Jules Feiffer. Although there was originally no intention of highlighting the comicstrip, Feiffer suggested using the character of a comic illustrator as the means of exploring American and French attitudes towards the appreciation of cartoons and comicbooks. This appealed to Resnaiss own longstanding enthusiasm for comicstrips, 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 liveactors. 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. ........

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