I Want to Go Home

I Want to Go Home (1989)

Comedy

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.

Director: Alain Resnais

Casts

	Laura Benson as Elsie Wellman
	Adolph Green as Joey Wellman
	Linda Lavin as Lena Apthrop
	Gérard Depardieu as Christian Gauthier
	Geraldine Chaplin as Terry Amstrong
	François-Eric Gendron as Lionel Cohn-Martin
	Georges Fricker as Roxy Darcel
	John Ashton as Harry Dempsey
	Caroline Silhol as Dora Dempsey
	Micheline Presle as Isabelle Gauthier
	Patrick Bonnel as Le boucher
	Charlotte Bonnet as La femme chauffeur de taxi
	Isabelle Wolfe as Laureline
	Jean-Marc Cozic as Tintin
	Tony Dias as Valentina
	Guillaume Farny as Bateman
	Alain Fromager as L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
	Peter Hudson as Le Spectre
	Raphaëline Goupilleau as L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
	Isabelle Habiague as La jeune femme qui chante
	Ludivine Sagnier as La petite fille de la place du village
	Jacques Le Servot as Spirit
	Agnès Seelinger as La domestique du manoir
	Gisèle Soban as Elektra
	Anne Teyssèdre as La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
	Isabelle Turpault as Catwoman
	Michel Weinstadt as Corto Maltese
	Abbes Zahmani as Le Concombre Masqué
	Lucienne Hamon as Mme Roget
	Catherine Arditi as La boulangère
	Anne Roussel as La jeune femme fatiguée
	Jean Champion as Le chauffeur de taxi
	Emmanuelle Chaulet as La secrétaire de Gauthier
	Pierre Decazes as Le garagiste
	Nicolas Trong as Le jeune homme dans l'avion
	Françoise Bertin as La cliente de la marchande de légumes

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