I Want to Go Home
I Want to Go Home
Overview
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.
Cast
Laura Benson
Adolph Green
Linda Lavin
Gérard Depardieu
Geraldine Chaplin
François-Eric Gendron
Georges Fricker
John Ashton
Caroline Silhol
Micheline Presle
Patrick Bonnel
Charlotte Bonnet
Isabelle Wolfe
Jean-Marc Cozic
Tony Dias
Guillaume Farny
Alain Fromager
Peter Hudson
Raphaëline Goupilleau
Isabelle Habiague
Ludivine Sagnier
Jacques Le Servot
Agnès Seelinger
Gisèle Soban
Anne Teyssèdre
Isabelle Turpault
Michel Weinstadt
Abbes Zahmani
Lucienne Hamon
Catherine Arditi
Anne Roussel
Jean Champion
Emmanuelle Chaulet
Pierre Decazes
Nicolas Trong
Françoise Bertin
Crew
Alain Resnais
Jules Feiffer
Charles Van Damme
Albert Jurgenson
John Kander
Marin Karmitz
Christian Ferry
Claude Moesching
Jacques Saulnier
Philippe Turlure
