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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungIt's an uncompromising, sophisticated, multi-layered work of art which demands to be met at least halfway.
- 75The Film StageEd FranklThe Film StageEd FranklThis is a film that stages itself in non-linear narratives, in severe, clinical long takes, in metaphorical observations, and even extended sequences of Shakespearean re-enactment–a film whose aesthetics may be intensely controlled and yet whose narrative is sprawling with meanings and readings.
- 75Slant MagazineCarson LundSlant MagazineCarson LundAngela Schanalec’s film configures itself most potently in hindsight as a punch to the gut.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisIn I Was at Home, but…, the German director Angela Schanelec seems to have taken her ideas and stashed them deep in a private vault. Every so often, though, she cracks open this movie — with a line, an image, a snatch of a song — offering you fugitive glimpses of an intensely personal world.
- 58The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe filmmakers that Schanelec draws on for inspiration are all masters of one kind of economy or another. The problem is that Schanelec herself is not. Despite its austere, theory-heavy minimalism, I Was At Home, But… is lopsided and lumpy, filled with longueurs in which the brain begins to check out.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe movie is not without interest, but I found it mannered, derivative and opaque.
- 40The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe emotional repression and intellectual stiffness that suffuse Angela Schanelec’s melancholy new drama are as much a matter of style as of substance.