One of Oliveira's finest achievements and probably his most accessible film, I'm Going Home sounds a wonderful grace note in Michel Piccoli's late career. Oliveira extracts the melodramatic core of the basic plot – an aging actor (Piccoli) left to care for his grandson after his daughter, wife and son-in-law's sudden death – to focus instead upon the quiet rituals and acts of courage that define the actor's life after the tragedy. A poetic return to the subject of the interrelation between the theater and cinema which has long fascinated Oliveira, I'm Going Home effortlessly raises profound questions about fate and the theatricality of life. The magic of Paris in the spring conjured by Oliveira weaves moments of rapturous beauty throughout this deeply moving meditation on art and aging.