I Was at Home, But

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I Was at Home, But

2019

1h 45m

Drama

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32 Reviews

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After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

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I Was at Home, But... withholds easy gratification, but viewers who settle into its austere rhythms will be rewarded with a story rich with meaning.

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

02/27/2020

This is unbearably good cinema.

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Jordan Cronk

Film Comment Magazine

02/19/2020

There's no denying the boldness of [I Was at Home, But...]-fractured, elliptical, and highly mannered, the film hardly betrays Schanelec's ideology.

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

02/14/2020

3/4

Every element -- camera placement, music, blocking, sound design -- is so deliberate that it pulls you into its vortex, and it makes you submit to its severe rhythms.

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Lawrence Garcia

In Review Online

06/05/2021

[The film is] ... an invitation to dance - not to forget that governing question, but to sublimate it into movement, as if to make one's body feel what one would ask of it.

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Steven Warner

In Review Online

06/04/2021

It becomes clear that Schanelec is commenting on both the contradictory nature of life itself and the duality of man, with the film as a whole serving as the ultimate example.

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Eulàlia Iglesias

Fotogramas

10/09/2020

5/5

A splendid Maren Eggert. [Full review in Spanish]

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adam a

Mar 23

Shouldn't review a movie I didn't finish, but this one deserves it. It makes no attempt to keep you watching. After 30 minutes, no hint of a plot at all. Not an interesting dialogue, nothing funny, shocking or even vaguely interesting. Like somebody didn't know they were recording for a week, and then edited out anything interesting that happened and showed us what was left

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Angela Schanelec

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Synopsis

After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

Director: Angela Schanelec
Screenwriter: Angela Schanelec
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.1K
Runtime: 1h 45m

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