FAREWELL, HOME SWEET HOME
aka ADIEU, PLANCHER DES VACHES!

Year: 1999
UK: ICA
Cast: Nico Tarielashvili, Lily Lavina, Philippe Bas, Stephanie Hainque, Mirabelle Kirkland, Amiran Amiranashvili, Joachim Salinger, Emmanuel de Chauvigny, Otar Ioseliani, Narda Blanchet, Yannick Carpentier, Vincent Darasse, Alix de Montaigu, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Otar Ioseliani
Countries: France / Switzerland / Italy
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 118 mins
UK Certificate: N/C
UK Release Date: 11 August 2000 (Limited Release - London)

Synopsis

FAREWELL, HOME SWEET HOME revolves around the lives of a wealthy, eccentric family. The mother (Lily Lavina) has a high powered job, flies around in a helicopter making business deals and has lavish dinner parties accompanied by a pet stork who entertains the guests! The father (played by the director Otar Ioseliani) is totally different and stays at home closeted in a room with a train set. Their son (Nico Tarielashvili), instead of going to school leaves for work every day to do a menial job and meet up with his friends (low lifes) and tries to pick up a girl (Stephanie Hainque) in a bar across the road. The rich try to be poor and the poor rich, each character wanting to be someone or somewhere else.