We Can't Go Home Again (1976)

Directed by

Nicholas Ray

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Nicholas Ray and his film students play fictionalized versions of themselves in an experimental feature. The director and students collaborate on a project that blurs the line between reality and performance.

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What happens

We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at Binghamton University. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves. The film was the major project of the last decade of Ray's life, and he and his collaborators continuously re-edited it. Rough versions of the film were screened at festivals as early as 1972 (including a Cannes premiere in 1973), and the most well-known cut was completed in 1976. Ray was still making alterations to it at the time of his death in 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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