Je rentre à la maison
Producer: Paulo Branco
Cast: Michel Piccoli (Gilbert Valence), Catherine Deneuve (Marguerite), John Malkovich (John Crawford, Film Director), Antoine Chappey (George), Leonor Baldaque (Sylvia), Leonor Silveira (Marie), Ricardo Trêpa (Guard), Jean-Michel Arnold (Doctor), Adrien de Van (Ferdinand), Sylvie Testud (Ariel), Isabel Ruth (Milkmaid), Andrew Wale (Stephen), Robert Dauney (Haines), Jean Koeltgen (Serge), Mauricette Gourdon (Guilhermine, the Housekeeper), Vania (Organ Grinder), Jacques Parsi (Friend of the Agent), Armel Monod (Second Friend of the Agent), Jean Chicot (Waiter), Christian Ameri (Bistro Patron), Bruno Guillot (Street Thug), Bernard Sanchez (Bistro Patron Carrying Le Figaro), Jean-Luc Horvais (Bistro Patron Carrying Le Monde), Nathalie Guéraud (Agent's Secretary), Madame Duteil (School Director), Catherine Trembloy (Saleswoman at Art Store), Vina Hiridjee (Autograph Seeker #1), Caroline Lavallée (Autograph Seeker #2), Emmanuelle Fèvre (Make-Up Woman), Philippe Mangin (Hairdresser), Robert Burns (Equipe tournage Américaine), Marlon Courbin, Eddie Crew (Equipe tournage américaine), Stephen Croce (Equipe tournage américaine), Max Seide (Equipe tournage américaine)
Keywords: Actor, Aging, Car Crash, Theater, Film In Film, Widower, Agent, Death Of Son In Law, Backstage, Death, Retirement, Seventy Something, Orphan, Inside Joke, Director, Death Of Daughter, Actress, Old Age, Paris France, Death Of Wife, Family Relationships, Odyssey, Grandfather Grandson Relationship, Shoe, Age Difference, Play Excerpt
Summary: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2001 (#05)
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Le Figaro is considered a right-wing newspaper in France. Therefore, the Café scenes are a joke with the average conservative French man.
Release Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2001
Budget: $18,000,000
Gross: $44,784
Loss: $17,955,216
Rating: 6.9
Votes: 872