Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999) ( Adieu, plancher des vaches! (Addio terraferma) ) ( Fare well, Terra Firma! )

Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Adieu, plancher des vaches! (Addio terraferma)
Alternate Title: Fare well, Terra Firma!
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Otar Iosseliani

Written By:
Otar Iosseliani

Actors:
Nico Tarielashvili ..... Son
Lily Lavina ..... Mother
Philippe Bas ..... Moto driver
Stephanie Hainque ..... Girl at bar
Mirabelle Kirkland ..... Maid
Amiran Amiranashvili ..... Hobo
Joachim Salinger ..... Beggar
Emmanuel de Chauvigny ..... Lover
Otar Iosseliani ..... Father
Narda Blanchet ..... Old lady
Yannick Carpentier ..... Serveur
Vincent Darasse ..... A drinker at bar
Mathieu Amalric
Viviane Bonelli
Viviane Bourguinet

Synopsis:

In a suburban Parisian chateau, a lovable souse (played by Iosseliani himself) fools around with his electric train set while his wife, a high-powered businesswoman, entertains her society friends with a gigantic stork perched on her shoulder. Meanwhile, the couple's teenage son forsakes the family chateau for café "society" preferring the company of its denizens - Parisian dropouts, immigrants, and street thugs - to home life. Told in a series of sublime vignettes, the seemingly disparate narrative threads are linked via tracking shots of breathtaking beauty. Combining the class-conscious irony of Luis Buñuel and the near-silent comedy of Jacques Tati, Time Out magazine's Film Guide hails Iosseliani's Farewell, Home Sweet Home as a "hugely charming piece, wondrously inventive, consistently witty, engaging in its devotion to the joys of wine, women and song."

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his devoted dog and electric train set. Unbeknownst to his parents, Nicholas works as a window cleaner and dish washer in a Parisian cafe. He is also in love with the daughter of another cafe's owner, who, however, has an abusive boyfriend. One night, Nicholas sneaks a few drunken drifters into his family wine cellar and his father unexpectedly takes a liking to the stranger.

Winner of the Prestigious European Critics Award (Prix FIPRESCI), Otar Iosseliani's Farewell, Home Sweet Home is a stunningly poetic, surrealist comedy of family manners and class consciousness.

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