Resnais and Jules Feiffer, the American satirist, together out on a limb. I Want to Go Home grows out of Resnais's lifelong passion for comic books and pulp fiction. An American cartoonist is invited to Paris for an exhibition of his work, and while he ridicules French intellectuals for exalting his oeuvre, he accepts for one reason only: his daughter is in Paris, studying Flaubert and studiously rejecting him. Meanwhile, her adored professeur (Gérard Depardieu) displays feet of clay-he's a passionate fan of her father's little cartoon creation, Hepp Cat. Adolph Green, the musical comedy songwriter of fame, plays the likable, carmudgeonly cartoonist. Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge, Little Murders, Popeye) is no stranger to screen success, but this satire of French cultural vapidity was apparently lost on American audiences after it won the Best Script award at Venice.