I Want to Go Home

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Laura Benson

Elsie Wellman

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Adolph Green

Joey Wellman

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Linda Lavin

Lena Apthrop

Age : 86 | Popularity : 4%

Gérard Depardieu

Christian Gauthier

Age : 75 | Popularity : 50%

Geraldine Chaplin

Terry Amstrong

Age : 79 | Popularity : 15%

François-Eric Gendron

Lionel Cohn-Martin

Age : 70 | Popularity : 3%

Georges Fricker

Roxy Darcel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

John Ashton

Harry Dempsey

Age : 76 | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Marin Karmitz
	Associate Producer	Christian Ferry
Art	Set Decoration	Philippe Turlure
	Production Design	Jacques Saulnier Claude Moesching
Editing	Editor	Albert Jurgenson
Directing	Director	Alain Resnais
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Catherine Leterrier
	Makeup Artist	Thi-Loan Nguyen Sylvie Lorthiois
	Hairstylist	Nicole Chaubet Patrick Villain
Sound	Original Music Composer	John Kander
Writing	Writer	Jules Feiffer
Camera	Director of Photography	Charles Van Damme
Department	Role	Name

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