Based on a Jules Feiffer original script, I WANT TO GO HOME is a movie directed by Alain Resnais in 1989. The picture won a special prize at the Venice Film Festival for its screenplay.
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Joey Wellman is one of the last american cartoonists of the golden era. Almost forgotten in his own country, he's been invited in Paris, France where his work is displayed. It's his first trip outside the U.S.A. and he's not enjoying the stay, criticizing everything. His secret wish is to meet his daughter in France, a daughter he hasn't seen in two years. Joey is invited by Christian Gauthier, a university professor fan of his comic books and also the Phd supervisor of Joey's daughter Elsie. Meanwhile, Elsie hesitates to meet his father with whom she always had a love/hate relation.
The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler
